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    • By: Ben Austen
    • Narrated by: Ben Austen
    • Length: 4 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 09-26-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 82 ratings
    • Will Johnnie Veal—convicted of the murder of two police officers in 1970—be granted parole after 50 years in prison? How can he convince the parole board he’s reformed when he insists he’s innocent? What is prison time even supposed to accomplish?

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    • Poverty and Profit in the American City
    • By: Matthew Desmond
    • Narrated by: Dion Graham
    • Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 03-01-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5,982 ratings
    • In Evicted, Princeton sociologist and MacArthur “Genius” Matthew Desmond follows eight families in Milwaukee as they each struggle to keep a roof over their heads....

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    • By: Edmund Morris
    • Narrated by: Mark Deakins
    • Series: Theodore Roosevelt, Book 1
    • Length: 26 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 06-22-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4,570 ratings
    • Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time. Described by the Chicago Tribune as "a classic", The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt stands as one of the greatest biographies of our time....

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    • What Broke American Health Care - and How to Fix It
    • By: Marty Makary MD
    • Narrated by: Marty Makary MD
    • Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 01-31-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 927 ratings
    • From the New York Times best-selling author of Unaccountable comes an eye-opening, urgent look at America's broken health care system - and the people who are saving it....

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    • Life in the Sane Lane
    • By: Bill O'Reilly, Bruce Feirstein
    • Narrated by: Holter Graham
    • Length: 4 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 03-28-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,024 ratings
    • You have probably heard the term Old School, but what you might not know is that there is a concentrated effort to tear that school down....

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    • By: Michael Lewis
    • Narrated by: Victor Bevine
    • Length: 6 hrs
    • Release date: 10-02-18
    • Language: English
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    • What happens when the President of the United States governs one Tweet at a time? When the elected leader of the free world may not have a firm grasp on the names of government agencies, much less an understanding of their intricate inner-workings? Find out....

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    • The Right-Wing Attack on the Will of the People - and the Fight to Resist It
    • By: Ari Berman
    • Narrated by: Gary Tiedemann
    • Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 04-23-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 68 ratings
    • The mob that stormed the Capitol on January 6, 2021, represented an extreme form of the central danger facing American democracy today: a blatant disregard for the will of the majority.

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    • The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future
    • By: Gretchen Bakke
    • Narrated by: Emily Caudwell
    • Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 09-08-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,322 ratings
    • The grid is an accident of history and of culture, in no way intrinsic to how we produce, deliver and consume electrical power. Yet this is the system the United States ended up with....

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    • How to Fix Our Crippled America
    • By: Donald J. Trump
    • Narrated by: Jeremy Lowell, Donald J. Trump - introduction
    • Length: 4 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 07-12-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,148 ratings
    • This book is my blueprint for how to make America great again. It's not hard. We just need someone with the courage to say what needs to be said. We won't find that in Washington, DC....

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    • The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe
    • By: Serhii Plokhy
    • Narrated by: Ralph Lister
    • Length: 14 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 05-15-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,963 ratings
    • From a preeminent historian of Eastern Europe, the definitive history of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster....

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    • By: Edmund Morris
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Marosz
    • Series: Theodore Roosevelt, Book 2
    • Length: 25 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 10-03-03
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,782 ratings
    • Theodore Rex is the story—never fully told before—of Theodore Roosevelt’s two world-changing terms as President of the United States....

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    • Why Global Human Flourishing Requires More Oil, Coal, and Natural Gas—Not Less
    • By: Alex Epstein
    • Narrated by: Alex Epstein
    • Length: 16 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 05-24-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 912 ratings
    • The New York Times bestselling author of The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels draws on the latest data and new insights to challenge everything you thought you knew about the future of energy.

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    • How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
    • By: Cathy O'Neil
    • Narrated by: Cathy O'Neil
    • Length: 6 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 09-06-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,948 ratings
    • We live in the age of the algorithm. Increasingly, the decisions that affect our lives—where we go to school, whether we can get a job or a loan, how much we pay for health insurance—are being made not by humans, but by machines. In theory, this should lead to greater fairness....

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    • Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy
    • By: Thomas Sowell
    • Narrated by: Jim Seybert
    • Length: 11 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 03-22-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 488 ratings
    • The Vision of the Anointed is a devastating critique of the mindset behind the failed social policies of the past thirty years....

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    • A Year of Healing and Heartbreak in a Chicago ER
    • By: Thomas Fisher
    • Narrated by: Ta-Nehisi Coates, Thomas Fisher
    • Length: 7 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 03-22-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 101 ratings
    • As an emergency room doctor working on the rapid evaluation unit, Dr. Thomas Fisher has about three minutes to spend with the patients who come into the South Side of Chicago ward where he works before directing them to the next stage of their care....

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    • By: Michael J. Sandel
    • Narrated by: Michael J. Sandel
    • Length: 11 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 09-15-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,340 ratings
    • Michael J. Sandel shows how a surer grasp of philosophy can help us to make sense of politics, morality, and our own convictions as well....

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    • Blueprint for America's Future
    • By: William Wurth
    • Narrated by: Cory Rodis
    • Length: 4 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 08-29-24
    • Language: English
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    • A ticking clock. A nation at a turning point. A bold blueprint for the future! In the crucible of the upcoming 2025 elections, America stands on the precipice of unprecedented change. The choices we make now will determine the course of our nation for generations to come.

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    • A Global History of Nuclear Disasters
    • By: Serhii Plokhy
    • Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
    • Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 05-17-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 102 ratings
    • Atoms and Ashes recounts the dramatic history of nuclear accidents that have dogged the industry in its military and civil incarnations since the 1950s. Through the stories of six terrifying major incidents, Cold War expert Serhii Plokhy explores the risks of nuclear power....

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