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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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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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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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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
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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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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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Overall
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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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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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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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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
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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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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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After the Last Border
- Two Families and the Story of Refuge in America
- By: Jessica Goudeau
- Narrated by: Soneela Nankani
- Length: 13 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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After the Last Border is an intimate look at the lives of two women as they struggle for the 21st-century American dream, having won the "golden ticket" to settle as refugees in Austin, Texas....
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Great Content. Odd Structure.
- By Susan Stillings on 02-10-21
By: Jessica Goudeau
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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
- Unabridged
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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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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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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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Partial explanation of the genocidal trend in anti-Israelism
- By Berel Dov Lerner on 09-16-24
By: Adam Kirsch
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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
- 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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A Heartbreaking Tale of Survival and Hope
- By Leahmgordon on 11-08-17
By: Nadia Murad
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God's Double Agent
- The True Story of a Chinese Christian's Fight for Freedom
- By: Bob Fu, Nancy French
- Narrated by: Hayden Lee
- Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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God’s people are hiding in plain sightTens of millions of Christians live in China today, leading double lives to hide from a government that relentlessly persecutes them....
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a great book, very informative.
- By Charles on 09-21-15
By: Bob Fu, and others
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Fateful Triangle
- The United States, Israel, and the Palestinians (Updated Edition)
- By: Noam Chomsky
- Narrated by: Brian Jones
- Length: 30 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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From its establishment to the present day, Israel has enjoyed a special position in the American roster of international friends. In Fateful Triangle, Noam Chomsky explores....
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Ethical Right to the Point
- By Not-Professor know-it-all on 09-23-15
By: Noam Chomsky
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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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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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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
- Unabridged
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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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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
- Unabridged
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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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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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Antisemitism
- Here and Now
- By: Deborah E. Lipstadt
- Narrated by: Ellen Archer, Paul Boehmer, Phoebe Strole
- Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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The award-winning author of The Eichmann Trial and Denial: Holocaust History on Trial gives us a penetrating and provocative analysis of the hate that will not die, focusing on its current, virulent incarnations on both the political right and left....
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A Must Read
- By Jean on 02-16-19
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The Architecture of Modern Empire
- Conversations with David Barsamian
- By: Arundhati Roy, Davi Barsamian - editor, Naomi Klein - foreword
- Narrated by: Jeed Saddy
- Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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A revelatory and wide-ranging series of interviews with award-winning writer Arundhati Roy, The Architecture of Modern Empire touches on United States empire, Indian nationalism, a writer's work, and more.
By: Arundhati Roy, and others
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Don't Forget Us Here
- Lost and Found at Guantanamo
- By: Mansoor Adayfi
- Narrated by: Roxanna Hope Radja, Mansoor Adayfi
- Length: 12 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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This moving, eye-opening memoir of an innocent man detained at Guantánamo Bay for 15 years tells a story of humanity in the unlikeliest of places and an unprecedented look at life at Guantánamo....
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Heartbreaking, painful and important
- By The Senate on 08-27-21
By: Mansoor Adayfi
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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
- Unabridged
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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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The Burglary
- The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover's Secret FBI
- By: Betty Medsger
- Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot, Betty Medsger
- Length: 25 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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The never-before-told full story of the history-changing break-in at the FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania, by a group of unlikely activists....
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Forget Ocean's 11
- By Susie on 02-06-14
By: Betty Medsger
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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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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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The Hard Road Out
- One Woman’s Escape from North Korea
- By: Jihyun Park, Seh-Lynn Chai, Sarah Baldwin - translator
- Narrated by: Rosa Escoda
- Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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North Korea is an open-air prison from which there is no escape. Only a handful of men and women have succeeded. Jihyun Park is one of these rare survivors. Twice she left the land of the ‘socialist miracle’ to flee famine and dictatorship....
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Excellent
- By Monica Daigle on 08-15-24
By: Jihyun Park, and others
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Profit Over People
- Neoliberalism & Global Order
- By: Noam Chomsky
- Narrated by: Brian Jones
- Length: 5 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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In Profit Over People, Chomsky reveals the roots of the present crisis, tracing the history of neoliberalism....
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Eye Opener
- By Maxwell Boyle on 12-24-16
By: Noam Chomsky
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The Blood Telegram
- Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide (Pulitzer Prize Finalist)
- By: Gary J. Bass
- Narrated by: Dennis Heath
- Length: 16 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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This magnificent history provides the first full account of Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger’s secret support for Pakistan in 1971 as it committed shocking atrocities in Bangladesh.
By: Gary J. Bass
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Police State
- How America's Cops Get Away with Murder
- By: Gerry Spence
- Narrated by: Alan Sklar
- Length: 16 hrs and 33 mins
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In his 60-plus years as a trial lawyer, Gerry Spence has never represented a person accused of a crime in which the police hadn't themselves violated the law....
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Fanatical Pontificating of a Defense Attorney
- By Posh on 09-17-15
By: Gerry Spence