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The Future Is Disabled
By: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Narrated by: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Length: 9 hours 20 minutes
Abridged: No
In The Future Is Disabled, Leah Laksmi Piepzna-Samarasinha asks some provocative questions: What if, in the near future, the majority of people will be disabled—and what if that's not a bad thing? And what if disability justice and disabled wisdom are crucial to creating a future in which it's possible to survive fascism, climate change, and... Read more
View audiobookStamped from the Beginning
By: Ibram X. Kendi
Narrated by: Avery Kidd Waddell
Length: 23 hours 35 minutes
Abridged: No
Some Americans insist that we're living in a post-racial society. But racist thought is not just alive and well in America—it is more sophisticated and more insidious than ever. And as award-winning historian Ibram X. Kendi argues, racist ideas have a long and lingering history, one in which nearly every great American thinker is complicit.
In... Read more
Before We Were Trans
By: Dr. Kit Heyam
Narrated by: Dr. Kit Heyam
Length: 8 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
A groundbreaking global history of gender nonconformity
Today’s narratives about trans people tend to feature individuals with stable gender identities that fit neatly into the categories of male or female. Those stories, while important, fail to account for the complex realities of many trans people’s lives.
Before We Were Trans illuminates... Read more
Against Technoableism
By: Ashley Shew
Narrated by: Maria Pendolino
Length: 4 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
When Ashley Shew became a self-described "hard-of-hearing chemobrained amputee with Crohn's disease and tinnitus," there was no returning to "normal." Suddenly well-meaning people called her an "inspiration" while grocery shopping or viewed her as a needy recipient of technological wizardry. Most disabled people don't want what the abled assume... Read more
View audiobookAbolition. Feminism. Now.
By: Erica Meiners, Gina Dent, Angela Y. Davis & Bet...
Narrated by: Gina Dent
Length: 5 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
As a politic and a practice, abolition increasingly shapes our political moment—halting the construction of new jails and propelling movements to divest from policing. Yet erased from this landscape are not only the central histories of feminist—usually queer, anticapitalist, grassroots, and women of color—organizing that continue to cultivate... Read more
View audiobookThe LGBTQ + History Book
By: DK
Narrated by: Willow Heath
Length: 15 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
Discover the rich and complex history of LGBTQ+ people around the world - their struggles, triumphs, and cultural contributions.
Exploring and explaining the most important ideas and events in LGBTQ+ history and culture, this book showcases the breadth of the LGBTQ+ experience. This diverse, global account explores the most important moments,... Read more
The Book of Pride
By: Mason Funk
Narrated by: Mason Funk, Robin Miles, Eileen Stevens, Kevin ...
Length: 10 hours 25 minutes
Abridged: No
THE BOOK OF PRIDE captures the true story of the gay rights movement from the 1960s to the present, through richly detailed, stunning interviews with the leaders, activists, and ordinary people who witnessed the movement and made it happen. These individuals fought battles both personal and political, often without the support of family or... Read more
View audiobookDear America
By: Jose Antonio Vargas
Narrated by: Jose Antonio Vargas
Length: 5 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas, called “the most famous undocumented immigrant in America,” tackles one of the defining issues of our time in this explosive and deeply personal call to arms.“This is not a book about the politics of immigration. This book––at it's core––is not about immigration at all. This book is about... Read more
View audiobook90s Bitch
By: Allison Yarrow
Narrated by: Allison Yarrow
Length: 11 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
Finalist for the Los Angeles Press Club Book Award, muse to a Givenchy fashion collection, and recommended by the The New York Times, The Skimm, US Weekly, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Refinery 29, Book Riot, Bitch Media, and more. ""Yarrow’s biting autopsy of the decade scrutinizes the way society reduced — or “bitchified” — women at... Read more
View audiobookThe Freaks Came Out to Write
By: Tricia Romano
Narrated by: Johnny Heller & Jo Anna Perrin
Length: 16 hours 44 minutes
Abridged: No
You either were there or you wanted to be. A defining New York City institution co-founded by Norman Mailer, The Village Voice was the first newspaper to cover hip-hop, the avant-garde art scene, and Off-Broadway with gravitas. It reported on the AIDS crisis with urgency and seriousness when other papers dismissed it as a gay disease. In 1979,... Read more
View audiobookAmerican Sirens
By: Kevin Hazzard
Narrated by: Gilbert Glenn Brown
Length: 9 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
The extraordinary story of an unjustly forgotten group of Black men in Pittsburgh who became the first paramedics in America, saving lives and changing the course of emergency medicine around the world
Until the 1970s, if you suffered a medical crisis, your chances of survival were minimal. A 9-1-1 call might bring police or even the local... Read more
Don't Panic
By: Neil Gaiman
Narrated by: Simon Jones & Neil Gaiman
Length: 8 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
Now in audiobook for the first time ever! Read by Simon Jones, the original “Arthur Dent,” and written by #1 New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman, Don’t Panic is the definitive chronicle of all things Hitchhiker!First published in 1986 and updated several times since, Don’t Panic is in an in-depth exploration of Douglas Adams’s cultural... Read more
View audiobookThe Tipping Point
By: Malcolm Gladwell
Narrated by: Malcolm Gladwell
Length: 8 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
From the bestselling author of The Bomber Mafia: discover Malcolm Gladwell's breakthrough debut and explore the science behind viral trends in business, marketing, and human behavior. The tipping point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire. Just as a single sick person... Read more
View audiobookMythology
By: Edith Hamilton
Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
Length: 14 hours 34 minutes
Abridged: No
Dive into the timeless tales of gods and heroes in this bestselling A-to-Z encyclopedia detailing classic myths and legends—perfect for curious readers and academics alike. Edith Hamilton's mythology succeeds like no other book in bringing to life for the modern reader the Greek, Roman and Norse myths that are the keystone of Western culture-the... Read more
View audiobookScreaming on the Inside
By: Jessica Grose
Narrated by: Suehyla El-Attar
Length: 6 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
In this timely and necessary book, New York Times opinion writer Jessica Grose dismantles two hundred years of unrealistic parenting expectations and empowers today’s mothers to make choices that actually serve themselves, their children, and their communitiesClose your eyes and picture the perfect mother. She is usually blonde and thin. Her... Read more
View audiobookWhere the Children Take Us
By: Zain E. Asher
Narrated by: Zain E. Asher
Length: 6 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
In this spellbinding memoir, popular CNN anchor Zain E. Asher pays tribute to her mother’s strength and determination to raise four successful children in the shadow of tragedy. Awaiting the return of her husband and young son from a road trip, Obiajulu Ejiofor receives shattering news. There’s been a fatal car crash, and one of them is... Read more
View audiobookWhy We Die
By: Venki Ramakrishnan
Narrated by: John Moraitis
Length: 9 hours 51 minutes
Abridged: No
""Utterly fascinating."" —Bill Bryson""An incredible journey."" —Siddhartha MukherjeeA groundbreaking exploration of the science of longevity and mortality—from Nobel Prize-winning molecular biologist Venki RamakrishnanThe knowledge of death is so terrifying that we live most of our lives in denial of it. One of the most difficult moments of... Read more
View audiobookThe Survivors of the Clotilda
By: Hannah Durkin
Narrated by: Tariye Peterside
Length: 11 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
Joining the ranks of Rebecca Skloot’s The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks and Zora Neale Hurston’s rediscovered classic Barracoon, an immersive and revelatory history of the Clotilda, the last slave ship to land on US soil, told through the stories of its survivors—the last documented survivors of any slave ship—whose lives diverged and... Read more
View audiobookCool Food
By: Robert Downey Jr. & Thomas Kostigen
Narrated by: Robert Downey Jr., Thomas Kostigen, various nar...
Length: 6 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLERIn Cool Food, celebrated actor and philanthropist Robert Downey Jr. and New York Times bestselling author Thomas Kostigen team up to discover how we can erase our carbon footprints—one bite at a time.What we eat matters—to us, and to the planet. Cool food is a game-changing new food category and... Read more
View audiobookThe Holocaust
By: Dan Stone
Narrated by: John Sackville
Length: 9 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
Published to acclaim in the UK, an authoritative, revelatory new history of the Holocaust that “shatters many myths about the Nazis’ genocide” (Sunday Times), from one of the leading scholars of his generation.“A stunning, original, concise analysis. … Masterful.” —Wendy Lower, author of Hitler’s FuriesThe Holocaust is much discussed, much... Read more
View audiobookAster of Ceremonies
By: JJJJJerome Ellis
Narrated by: JJJJJerome Ellis
Length: 6 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
A polyphonic new entry in Multiverse—a literary series written and curated by the neurodivergent—JJJJJerome Ellis’s Aster of Ceremonies beautifully extends the vision of his debut book and album, The Clearing, a “lyrical celebration of and inquiry into the intersections of blackness, music, and disabled speech” (Claudia Rankine).Aster of... Read more
View audiobookWicked Beyond Belief
By: Michael Bilton
Narrated by: Marston York
Length: 21 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
Now a major TV series ‘A masterpiece that reads like a thriller’ Time Out A gripping and probing account of the biggest criminal manhunt in British history. It is over 40 years since Peter Sutcliffe was convicted of murdering 13 women and attacking 7 more. Still, he remains a killer of almost mythical... Read more
View audiobookGlitter and Concrete
By: Elyssa Maxx Goodman
Narrated by: Kevin R. Free & Natalie Duke
Length: 12 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
*The Millions Most Anticipated List of 2023*
*A Vogue Best LGBTQ+ Book of 2023*
"Deeply researched and featuring a cast of characters who can truly be described as fabulous, Glitter and Concrete is urban history on fire." —Thomas Dyja, author of New York, New York, New York
An intimate, evocative history of drag in New York City exploring its... Read more
After Botham
By: Allisa Charles-Findley & Jeremiah Cobra
Narrated by: Reina Mystique
Length: 6 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
On September 6, 2018, White Dallas police officer Amber Guyger opened the door of Apartment 1478. Inside, Botham Jean lay on his couch, having hung up from his daily call with his sister, Allisa. She’d encouraged her brother to stay home for the night’s opening Dallas Cowboys game as sports bars would be too dangerous. Guyger instantly assumed... Read more
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