Social Science audiobooks

Get What's Yours for Medicare

By: Philip Moeller

Narrated by: James Foster

Length: 7 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

A coauthor of the New York Times bestselling guide to Social Security Get What’s Yours authors an essential companion to explain Medicare, the nation’s other major benefit for older Americans. Learn how to maximize your health coverage and save money.Social Security provides the bulk of most retirees’ income and Medicare guarantees them... Read more

Ghostland

By: Colin Dickey

Narrated by: Jon Lindstrom

Length: 10 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

One of NPR’s Great Reads of 2016

“A lively assemblage and smart analysis of dozens of haunting stories…absorbing…[and] intellectually intriguing.” —The New York Times Book Review

From the author of The Unidentified, an intellectual feast for fans of offbeat history that takes readers on a road trip through some of the country’s most infamously... Read more

Soul Serenade

By: Rashod Ollison

Narrated by: C. S. Treadway

Length: 8 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

A coming-of-age memoir about a young boy in rural Arkansas who searches for himself and his distant father through soul music

Growing up in rural Arkansas, young Rashod Ollison turned to music to make sense of his life. The dysfunction, sadness, and steely resilience of his family and neighbors was reflected in the R&B songs that played on... Read more

Life as Jamie Knows It

By: Michael Berube

Narrated by: Brian Roberts

Length: 8 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

The story of Jamie Bérubé’s journey to adulthood and a meditation on disability in American life

Published in 1996, Life as We Know It introduced Jamie Bérubé to the world as a sweet, bright, gregarious little boy who loves the Beatles, pizza, and making lists. When he is asked in his preschool class what he would like to be when he grows up, he... Read more

The Duel

By: Judith St. George

Narrated by: John H. Mayer

Length: 3 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

In curiously parallel lives, Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr were both orphaned at an early age. Both were brilliant students who attended college--one at Princeton, the other at Columbia--and studied law. Both were young staff officers under General George Washington, and both became war heroes. Politics beckoned them, and each served in the... Read more

You Can't Touch My Hair

By: Phoebe Robinson

Narrated by: Phoebe Robinson, Jessica Williams & John Hodgman

Length: 7 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

A NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • "A must-read…Phoebe Robinson discusses race and feminism in such a funny, real, and specific way, it penetrates your brain and stays with you." –Ilana Glazer, co-creator and co-star of Broad City

A hilarious and timely essay collection about race, gender, and pop culture from upcoming comedy superstar and 2 Dope... Read more

Writings on the Wall

By: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar & Raymond Obstfeld

Narrated by: Ben Adduchio

Length: 8 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Bestselling author, basketball legend and cultural commentator Kareem Abdul-Jabbar explores the heart of issues that affect Americans today.
Since retiring from professional basketball as the NBA's all-time leading scorer, six-time MVP, and Hall of Fame inductee, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar has become a lauded observer of culture and society, a New York... Read more

Men Chase, Women Choose

By: Dawn Maslar

Narrated by: Suzanne Elise Freeman

Length: 7 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Love is one of our strongest biological drives, but it can be frustratingly elusive and misunderstood. Music, literature, and movies are filled with common folklore about love and millions of TV viewers tune in to shows like The Bachelor and read the latest relationship tome with one simple hope: to uncover some nugget of mystic wisdom that will... Read more

Olympic Games the Myth

By: Tina Angelou

Narrated by: Danae Phelps

Length: 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Discover the secrets of the Olympic Games through the Greek myths. Three Greek myths for the foundation of the Olympic Games unfold their secrets. Titans and Giants against the Gods! Who prevents the marriage of the beautiful princess? What prophecy will the oracle of Delphi give to stop a civil war? Walk the trails of the ancient Greek myths... Read more

Greece Sends Stranded Refugee Children to School, Stoking Anti-Migrant Resistance

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Greece launched a program Monday to provide education to the thousands of migrant children displaced in that nation. But the program is facing resistance from Greek parents concerned about cultural differences and infectious diseases. The pushback is one example of anti-migrant and nationalist sentiments in the country. Special correspondent... Read more

The Transgender Teen

By: Stephanie A. Brill

Narrated by: Coleen Marlo

Length: 9 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Is it just a phase, a fad, or a real issue with your teen? This comprehensive guidebook explores the unique challenges that thousands of families face every day raising a teenager who may be transgender, gender-variant or gender-fluid. Covering extensive research and with many personal interviews, as well as years of experience working in the... Read more

Time Travel

By: James Gleick

Narrated by: Rob Shapiro

Length: 9 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

“A time-jumping, head-tripping odyssey.” —The Millions
“A bracing swim in the waters of science, technology and fiction.” —Washington Post
“A thrilling journey of ideas.” —Boston Globe

From the acclaimed author of The Information and Chaos, here is a mind-bending exploration of time travel: its subversive origins, its evolution in literature and... Read more

Sing for Your Life

By: Daniel Bergner

Narrated by: Ryan Vincent Anderson

Length: 8 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

The New York Times bestseller about a young black man's journey from violence and despair to the threshold of stardom: "A beautiful tribute to the power of good teachers" (Terry Gross, Fresh Air).

"One of the most inspiring stories I've come across in a long time."-Pamela Paul, New York Times Book Review

Ryan Speedo Green had a tough upbringing... Read more

The Bitch is Back

By: Cathi Hanauer

Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt

Length: 11 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

More than a decade after the New York Times bestselling anthology The Bitch in the House spoke up loud and clear for a generation of young woman, nine of the original contributors are back—along with sixteen captivating new voices—sharing their ruminations from an older, stronger, and wiser perspective about love, sex, work, family,... Read more

The Late Bloomer

By: Ken Baker

Narrated by: Ken Baker

Length: 9 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Soon to be a feature film, The Late Bloomer is the revealing, harrowing and often funny memoir of a celebrity journalist and former hotshot hockey player who discovers that he has been biochemically infused with a female hormone.

On the surface, Ken Baker seemed a model man. He was a nationally ranked hockey goalie; a Hollywood correspondent for... Read more

Brave

By: Adele Bellis

Narrated by: Talulah Greggs

Length: 8 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Control. Jealousy. Isolation. Blame. Anger. Violence.The inspiring true story of a young woman who suffered a terrifyingly abusive relationship culminating in a horrific acid attack from the man who claimed to love her. Adele was just 23 years old when she was scarred for life by an acid attack arranged by her ex-boyfriend,... Read more

Pushout

By: Monique W. Morris

Narrated by: Kristyl Dawn Tift

Length: 8 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Fifteen-year-old Diamond stopped going to school the day she was expelled for lashing out at peers who constantly harassed and teased her for something everyone on the staff had missed: she was being trafficked for sex. After months on the run, she was arrested and sent to a detention center for violating a court order to attend school.



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Crossing the Thinnest Line

By: Lauren Leader-Chivee

Narrated by: Sarah Mollo-Christensen

Length: 10 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

FROM THE VERY FOUNDING OF OUR NATION, diversity has been one of our greatest strengths but also the greatest source of conflict. In less than a generation, America will become "minority-majority," and the world economy, already interconnected, will be even more globalized. The stakes for how we handle this evolution couldn't be higher. Will... Read more

Modified

By: Caitlin Shetterly

Narrated by: Caitlin Shetterly

Length: 11 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

A disquieting and meditative look at the issue that started the biggest food fight of our time--GMOs. From a journalist and mother who learned that genetically modified corn was the culprit behind what was making her and her child sick, a must-read book for anyone trying to parse the incendiary discussion about genetically modified foods.

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A Woman on the Edge of Time

By: Jeremy Gavron

Narrated by: Gerard Doyle

Length: 7 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

A son’s search for his mother, a feminist pioneer—and a casualty of her timeIn London, 1965, a brilliant young woman—a prescient advocate for women’s rights—has just gassed herself to death, leaving behind a suicide note, two young sons, and a soon-to-be-published book: The Captive Wife. No one had ever imagined that Hannah Gavron might take her... Read more

Ten Restaurants That Changed America

By: Paul Freedman

Narrated by: Keith Szarabajka

Length: 13 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

From Delmonico’s to Sylvia’s to Chez Panisse, a daring and original history of dining out in America as told through ten legendary restaurantsCombining a historian’s rigor with a foodie’s palate, Ten Restaurants That Changed America reveals how the history of our restaurants reflects nothing less than the history of America itself.Whether... Read more

Blood at the Root

By: Patrick Phillips

Narrated by: Patrick Phillips

Length: 7 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

A gripping tale of racial cleansing in Forsyth County, Georgia, and a harrowing testament to the deep roots of racial violence in America.
Forsyth County, Georgia, at the turn of the twentieth century was home to a large African American community that included ministers and teachers, farmers and field hands, tradesmen, servants, and children.... Read more

In Praise of Slowness

By: Carl Honore

Narrated by: Carl Honore

Length: 7 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

We live in the age of speed. We strain to be more efficient, to cram more into each minute, each hour, each day. Since the Industrial Revolution shifted the world into high gear, the cult of speed has pushed us to a breaking point. Consider these facts: Americans on average spend seventy-two minutes of every day behind the wheel of a car, a... Read more

*Priceless

By: Luke Smallbone, Joel Smallbone & Nora Hunter

Length: 8 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

The powerfully compelling novelization of the major motion picture (October 14, 2016) by Joel and Luke Smallbone of the band for KING & COUNTRY.James Stevens was, at one time, a good man with a great life. After the tragic death of his wife and losing custody of his little girl, James is at the darkest crossroad of his life. Angry,... Read more