Social Science audiobooks

Uncle's Tom Cabin

By: Harriet Beecher Stowe

Narrated by: Jason Smith (Male Synthesized Voice)

Length: 17 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

"Uncle Tom's Cabin," published in 1852, is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. The story follows the lives of several enslaved African Americans, primarily Uncle Tom, as they navigate the harsh realities of slavery in the United States. Stowe wrote the novel as a response to the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 and intended... Read more

Ghosts from the Nursery

By: Robin Karr-Morse & Meredith S. Wiley

Narrated by: Linda Jones

Length: 13 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

An "ominous and persuasive" study of when violence starts in child development—and the preventive measures to stop it (The New York Times Book Review).



This new, revised edition incorporates significant advances in neurobiological research and includes a new introduction by Dr. Vincent J. Felitti, a leading researcher in the field. When Ghosts... Read more

The #MeToo Effect

By: Leigh Gilmore

Narrated by: Leigh Gilmore

Length: 7 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

The #MeToo movement inspired millions to testify to the widespread experience of sexual violence. More broadly, it shifted the deeply ingrained response to women's accounts of sexual violence from doubting all of them to believing some of them. What changed?



Leigh Gilmore provides a new account of #MeToo that reveals how storytelling by survivors... Read more

Men! Fight for Me

By: Alan Smyth & Jessica Midkiff

Narrated by: Alan Smyth, Jessica Midkiff & various narrators

Length: 4 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Coauthors Alan Smyth and Jessica Midkiff have dedicated their lives to ending the plight of human trafficking and sexual exploitation. This book exposes the harsh realities facing vulnerable populations to these criminal enterprises and explores the transformative role of authentic masculinity. Upon listening to this book, men will open their... Read more

Masquerade

By: Alfred F. Young

Narrated by: Kate Mulligan

Length: 13 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

The remarkable story of the woman who fought in the American Revolution as Robert Shurtliff—and got away with itServing for seventeen months during the period between the British surrender at Yorktown and the signing of the final treaty, a time when peace was far from secure, Deborah Sampson accomplished her deception by becoming an outstanding... Read more

How to Talk to Anyone About Anything

By: Daisy Byrd

Narrated by: Peter Finch

Length: 2 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

"How to Talk to Anyone About Anything" is your all-in-one resource for doing precisely that. This book's chapters will teach you all you need to know to completely accept your authentic self and become the most captivating speaker in ANY environment! With the help of this excellent guide to becoming a better communicator, you will be able... Read more

Night Train to Nashville

By: Paula Blackman

Narrated by: Paula Blackman & Matt Richbourg

Length: 10 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Set against the backdrop of Jim Crow, Night Train to Nashville takes readers behind the curtain of one of music's greatest untold stories during the era of segregation and Civil Rights.In another time and place, E. Gab Blackman and William Sousa "Sou" Bridgeforth might have been as close as brothers, but in 1950s Nashville they remained... Read more

Muscle

By: Roy A. Meals, MD

Narrated by: Jonathan Yen

Length: 7 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

An entertaining deep dive into muscle, from the discovery of human anatomy to the latest science of strength training.



Muscle tissue powers every heartbeat, blink, jog, jump, and goosebump. It is the force behind the most critical bodily functions, including digestion and childbirth, as well as extreme feats of athleticism. We can mold our... Read more

How Far to the Promised Land

By: Esau McCaulley

Narrated by: Esau McCaulley

Length: 5 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times contributing opinion writer and award-winning author of Reading While Black, a riveting intergenerational account of his family’s search for home and hope

“Powerful . . . McCaulley uses examples of his own family’s stories of survival over time to remind readers that some paths to the promised land have detours along the... Read more

Wealth Supremacy

By: Marjorie Kelly

Narrated by: Tiffany Williams

Length: 6 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

This powerful analysis explains how the bias toward wealth that is woven into the very fabric of American capitalism is damaging people, the economy, and the planet and explores what the foundations of a new economy could be.

This bold manifesto exposes seven myths underlying wealth supremacy-the bias that institutionalizes infinite extraction of... Read more

New Moon Magic

By: Risa Dickens & Amy Torok

Narrated by: Risa Dickens & Amy Torok

Length: 12 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Harness the power of lunar magic with 13 essential practices for the modern witch—one for each New Moon of the year

Fresh, fierce, and unapologetically feminist, this is both guidebook and rallying cry: an intersectional and inclusive magical praxis that resists, disrupts, and opens the door to nourishment, abundance, and transformation—for... Read more

Blood on the Coal

By: Ken Cuthbertson

Narrated by: Miles Meili

Length: 10 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

The riveting true story of one of Canada’s worst mining disasters, told in the voices of the men who survived itForeword by Anne MurrayThey said it was the world’s deepest and most dangerous coal mine. That claim was probably correct. What is certain is that in October 1958, the Dominion Steel and Coal Corporation’s No. 2 colliery at Springhill,... Read more

Brooding Over Bloody Revenge

By: Nikki M. Taylor

Narrated by: Machelle Williams

Length: 7 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

From the colonial through the antebellum era, enslaved women in the US used lethal force as the ultimate form of resistance. By amplifying their voices and experiences, Brooding over Bloody Revenge strongly challenges assumptions that enslaved women only participated in covert, non-violent forms of resistance, when in fact they consistently... Read more

Punished for Dreaming

By: Bettina L. Love

Narrated by: Bettina L. Love & Karen Chilton

Length: 11 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

This program features an introduction read by the author.

“I am an eighties baby who grew to hate school. I never fully understood why. Until now. Until Bettina Love unapologetically and painstakingly chronicled the last forty years of education ‘reform’ in this landmark book. I hated school because it warred on me. I hated school because I loved... Read more

What We Remember Will Be Saved

By: Stephanie Saldaña

Narrated by: Raquel Beattie

Length: 8 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

In an era of mass migration in which more than 100 million people are displaced comes this lyrical portrait of Syrian and Iraqi refugees and the belongings they carry. What We Remember Will Be Saved is a book of hope, home, and the stories we hold within us when everything else has been lost.



Journalist and scholar Stephanie Saldaña, who lived in... Read more

Loving Our Own Bones

By: Julia Watts Belser

Narrated by: Sara Sheckells

Length: 11 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

A transformative spiritual companion and deep dive into disability politics that reimagines disability in the Bible and contemporary culture

A 2024 National Jewish Book Award winner and essential read on disability, spirituality, and social justice

“What’s wrong with you?”

Scholar, activist, and rabbi Julia Watts Belser is all too familiar with... Read more

Miasto gangów. Ukryte światy Rio de Janeiro

By: Łukasz Czeszumski

Narrated by: Janusz German

Length: 8 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Za blaskiem karnawałowego tańca skrywa się mroczne serce Rio.Zapomnij o karnawale i sambie. W sercu Rio kryje się mroczny świat faweli, gdzie życie to walka o przetrwanie. Ta książka zabierze Cię w głąb niebezpiecznych ulic, ukazując skomplikowaną sieć handlu narkotykami i korupcji. W miejscu, gdzie granice między prawem a przestępstwem są... Read more

Mitología celta: Un apasionante recorrido por los mitos y los dioses celtas

By: Billy Wellman

Narrated by: Carlos Verne

Length: 5 hours

Abridged: No

La mitología celta es tan fascinante como la egipcia o la griega. Sin embargo, no parece recibir la atención que merece. Este libro pretende cambiar esa situación.Dioses, diosas, hadas y criaturas sobrenaturales son los protagonistas de las historias y cuentos celtas de antaño. A menudo utilizados para explicar los fenómenos naturales, la vida y... Read more

Egyptian Mythology for Kids: Captivating Tales and Myths of Gods, Goddesses, Monsters, and Pharaohs

By: Matt Clayton

Narrated by: Michael Reaves

Length: 1 hour 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Have you ever wondered why the ancient Egyptians made mummies, why they built the gigantic pyramids, or what they believed in? All these questions and more will be answered in this incredible audiobook on Egyptian mythology. Become an ancient Egyptian myth buster and find out which legends about ancient Egypt are pure fiction!Learning doesn’t... Read more

The New Slave Masters

By: George Dallas McKinney

Narrated by: George Dallas McKinney

Length: 9 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

It's SLAVERY all over again! The New Slavemasters that are destroying hopes and dreams in families and relationships are even more threatening than their whip-wielding predecessors. These new Slavemasters’ evil-rooted forces – drugs, gangs, violence, racism, materialism, deception, teen pregnancy, and sexual promiscuity – still WALK AND LIVE... Read more

Libertadoras: Una producción original de Storytel

By: Carmen Domingo & Diana Huicochea

Narrated by: Carmen Domingo

Length: 7 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Fueron muchas, muchísimas, las mujeres que lucharon mano a manos con los hombres en las guerras de liberación, muchas las que sacrificaron sus vidas e, incluso, sus familias, pero solo de unas pocas hemos conservado su nombre en nuestro imaginario y es esa "invisibilización" la que, como me sucede en casi todos los libros que escribo, hizo que... Read more

Heroes in Mythology

By: Jim Weiss

Narrated by: Jim Weiss

Length: 1 hour

Abridged: No

In this audiobook for young listeners, Jim Weiss thrillingly narrates his adaptation of three of the world's greatest adventures, each featuring a quest for wisdom and a famous character: Theseus, Prometheus, and Odin. Includes "Theseus and the Minotaur," "Prometheus, Bringer of Fire," and more. Read more

Je band met Nederland - Verhuisd uit Senegal (Eva Sow)

By: Peter de Ruiter

Narrated by: Peter de Ruiter

Length: 42 minutes

Abridged: No

Voor liefhebbers van 'Ik vertrek', 'Erica op reis' en de programma's van Floortje Dessing.Wat valt op, als je als buitenlander naar Nederland verhuist? Nederland presenteert zich graag als gastvrij en tolerant land, maar hoe wordt daar daar door nieuwkomers over gedacht? Dit is hun verhaal.In deze reeks vertellen Nederlanders en... Read more

Pick me Girls (Ungekürzt)

By: Sophie Passmann

Narrated by: Sophie Passmann

Length: 5 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Sophie Passmann hat mit "Pick me Girls" nicht nur ihr persönlichstes Buch geschrieben, sondern auch eine kluge Auseinandersetzung mit dem männlichen Blick. Ihr Memoir zeichnet ein stellvertretendes Frauenleben nach und wirft die Frage auf: Welche Version von ihr selbst hätte Sophie Passmann sein können, wenn das Patriarchat nicht existieren... Read more