Social Science audiobooks
StoryCorps: Outloud
By: David Isay
Length: 1 hour 32 minutes
Abridged: No
StoryCorps recognizes the profound historical importance of capturing the stories of the LGBTQ community and the urgent need for this work to happen now. StoryCorps OutLoud is a multi-year initiative dedicated to recording and preserving LGBTQ stories across America.
OutLoud honors the stories of those who lived before the 1969 Stonewall... Read more
Red
By: Jacky Colliss Harvey
Narrated by: Jacky Colliss Harvey
Length: 6 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
Red is a brilliantly told, captivating history of red hair throughout the ages. A book that breaks new ground, dispels myths, and reinforces the special nature of being a redhead, with a look at multiple disciplines, including science, religion, politics, feminism and sexuality, literature, and art.
With an obsessive fascination that is as... Read more
The Spiral Notebook
By: Stephen Singular & Joyce Singular
Narrated by: Tom Taylorson
Length: 7 hours 37 minutes
Abridged: No
On July 20, 2012, twelve people were killed and seventy wounded at a mass shooting in a movie theater in Colorado. In 1999, twelve kids and one teacher at Columbine High School were murdered by two students. In 2012, twenty children and seven adults were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary. Thirty-two were killed at Virginia Tech. Twelve killed at... Read more
View audiobookThe Donohue-Levitt Hypothesis And Morality Of Legalized Abortion
By: Trevor Clinger
Narrated by: Trevor Clinger
Length: 8 minutes
Abridged: No
In today's interconnected world, fueled by the freedom of press enshrined in the 1st Amendment of the United States Constitution, media platforms have brought forth numerous contentious topics for public scrutiny. Among these, abortion stands out as a deeply polarizing issue currently dominating debates across social media, television screens,... Read more
View audiobookThe Martyr’s Curse
By: Scott Mariani
Narrated by: Colin Mace
Length: 11 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
THE ADDICTIVE NEW THRILLER FROM THE #1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR ‘Deadly conspiracies, bone-crunching action and a tormented hero with a heart . . . packs a real punch’ Andy McDermott AN ANCIENT CURSE. A SHOCKING MASSACRE.A THREAT TO UNLEASH THE ULTIMATE DISASTER. Could Ben Hope have... Read more
View audiobookBobby Wonderful
By: Bob Morris
Narrated by: Bob Morris
Length: 4 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
His mother's last word was his name. His father's was "Wonderful." Together they inspired the title for this true story of love and redemption.
Bob Morris was always the entertainer in his family, but not always a perfect son. When he finds his parents approaching the end of their lives, he begins to see his relationship to them in a whole new... Read more
Primates of Park Avenue
By: Wednesday Martin
Narrated by: Madeleine Maby
Length: 8 hours 9 minutes
Abridged: No
An instant #1 New York Times bestseller, Primates of Park Avenue is an “amusing, perceptive and…deliciously evil” (The New York Times Book Review) memoir of the most secretive and elite tribe—Manhattan’s Upper East Side mothers.
When Wednesday Martin first arrives on New York City’s Upper East Side, she’s clueless about the right addresses, the... Read more
Spectacle
By: Pamela Newkirk
Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
Length: 9 hours 38 minutes
Abridged: No
In 1904, Ota Benga, a young Congolese 'pygmy' - a person of petite stature - arrived from central Africa and was featured in an anthropology exhibit at the St. Louis World's Fair. Two years later, the New York Zoological Gardens displayed him in its Monkey House, caging the slight 103-pound, 4-foot 11-inch tall man with an orangutan. The... Read more
View audiobookContext
By: Cory Doctorow
Narrated by: Richard Powers
Length: 6 hours 39 minutes
Abridged: No
One of the web's most celebrated high-tech culture mavens returns with this second collection of essays and polemics. Discussing complex topics in an accessible manner, Cory Doctorow's visions of a future where artists have full freedom of expression is tempered with his understanding that creators need to benefit from their own creations. From... Read more
View audiobookPro-Voice
By: Aspen Baker
Narrated by: Erin Mallon
Length: 5 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
Dialogue, Not Dogma
When Aspen Baker had an abortion at the age of twenty-four, she felt caught between the warring pro-life and pro-choice factions, with no safe space to share her feelings.
In this hopeful and moving book, Baker describes how she and Exhale, the organization she cofounded, developed their “pro-voice” philosophy and the creative... Read more
Pro-Voice
By: Aspen Baker
Narrated by: Erin Mallon
Length: 5 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
Once vilified by pro-life and pro-choice supporters alike, Aspen Baker has now shown that "pro-voice" might be the best method to move past conflict and hatred around abortion. With her nonprofit, Exhale, she has demonstrated that it's possible to get people talking respectfully even about the most polarizing topics.
When Aspen Baker had an... Read more
In Our Backyard
By: Nita Belles
Narrated by: Nicol Zanzarella
Length: 7 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
Modern slavery is happening all around you . . . and you can be part of the solution. Human trafficking is not just something that happens in other countries. Nor is it something that just happens to “other people,” such as runaways or the disenfranchised. Even kids in your own neighborhood can fall victim. But they don’t have to.
Through true... Read more
The Well-Tuned Brain
By: Peter C. Whybrow
Narrated by: John Curless
Length: 13 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
The bestselling author of American Mania, eminent neuroscientist Peter C. Whybrow here addresses overconsumption in modern society. Using personal stories and the latest research, Whybrow illuminates the path toward a sustainable market society of responsible and well-tuned individuals. Read more
View audiobookThe Relationship Between Cults And Jews
By: Trevor Clinger
Narrated by: Al Remington
Length: 13 minutes
Abridged: No
In discussions about cults, terms like religion, brainwashing, and pyramid schemes frequently arise. The term 'cult' originally stemmed from religious contexts, initially with positive connotations. Even today, mainstream religions like Judaism can be viewed through this lens. This book draws parallels between modern cults and the earliest... Read more
View audiobookBad Faith
By: Paul A. Offit, MD
Narrated by: Tom Perkins
Length: 7 hours 1 minute
Abridged: No
In recent years, there have been major outbreaks of whooping cough among children in California, mumps in New York, and measles in Ohio’s Amish country—despite the fact that these are all vaccine-preventable diseases. Although America is the most medically advanced place in the world, many people disregard modern medicine in favor of using their... Read more
View audiobookA Lucky Life Interrupted
By: Tom Brokaw
Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
Length: 5 hours 22 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A powerful memoir of a dramatic year spent battling cancer and reflecting on a long, happy, and lucky life—from the bestselling author of The Greatest Generation, whose iconic career in journalism has spanned more than fifty years
Tom Brokaw has led a fortunate life, with a strong marriage and family, many friends, and... Read more
By the People
By: Charles Murray
Narrated by: John H. Mayer
Length: 12 hours 8 minutes
Abridged: No
The American way of life, built on individual liberty and limited government, is on life support.American freedom is being gutted. Whether we are trying to run a business, practice a vocation, raise our families, cooperate with our neighbors, or follow our religious beliefs, we run afoul of the government—not because we are doing anything wrong... Read more
View audiobookIn the Shadow of the Sword
By: Tom Holland
Narrated by: Steven Crossley
Length: 18 hours 11 minutes
Abridged: No
The evolution of the Arab empire is one of the supreme narratives of ancient history, a story dazzlingly rich in drama, character, and achievement. In this exciting and sweeping history—the third in his trilogy of books on the ancient world—Tom Holland describes how the Arabs emerged to carve out a stupefyingly vast dominion in a matter of... Read more
View audiobookMo' Meta Blues
By: Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson & Ben Greenman
Length: TBA
Abridged: No
"You have to bear in mind that [Questlove] is one of the smartest motherf*****s on the planet. His musical knowledge, for all practical purposes, is limitless." --Robert Christgau
MO' META BLUES
The World According to Questlove
Mo' Meta Blues is a punch-drunk memoir in which Everyone's Favorite Questlove tells his own story while tackling some of... Read more
When Parents Part
By: Penelope Leach
Narrated by: Fran Tunno
Length: 8 hours 54 minutes
Abridged: No
From the author of the bestselling Your Baby & Child comes a book full of completely practical, comprehensively researched information and advice on how you can do what is best for your child when you are going through a separation or divorce.Using the latest scientific research in child development, Penelope Leach covers the various effects... Read more
View audiobookA Prayer before Dawn
By: Billy Moore
Narrated by: Rupert Farley
Length: 5 hours 56 minutes
Abridged: No
A Prayer before Dawn is the true story of one man's fight to survive inside Klong Prem prison, the notorious Bangkok Hilton. Billy Moore traveled to Thailand to escape a life of drug addiction and alcoholism. He managed to overcome his inner demons for a time but relapsed after trying ya ba, a highly addictive form of methamphetamine. Moore's... Read more
View audiobookTomorrowland
By: Steven Kotler
Narrated by: Tom Parks
Length: 8 hours 58 minutes
Abridged: No
New York Times, Wired, Atlantic Monthly, Discover bestselling author Steven Kotler has written extensively about those pivotal moments when science fiction became science fact…and fundamentally reshaped the world. Now he gathers the best of his best, updated and expanded upon, to guide readers on a mind-bending tour of the far frontier, and how... Read more
View audiobookThe Fangirl's Guide to the Galaxy
By: Sam Maggs
Narrated by: Holly Conrad & Jessica Almasy
Length: 5 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
Fanfic, cosplay, cons, books, memes, podcasts, vlogs, OTPs and RPGs and MMOs and more—it’s never been a better time to be a girl geek. The Fangirl’s Guide to the Galaxy is the ultimate handbook for ladies living the nerdy life, a fun and feminist take on the often male-dominated world of geekdom. With an unabashed love for all the in(ternet)s... Read more
View audiobookWhat the **** is Normal?!
By: Francesca Martinez
Narrated by: Francesca Martinez
Length: 11 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
If you grow up in a world where wrinkles are practically illegal, going bald is cause for a mental breakdown, and women over size zero are encouraged to shoot themselves (immediately), what the hell do you do if you’re, gasp … DISABLED?
Whatever body you’re born into, the pressure to be normal is everywhere. But have you ever met a normal... Read more