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Braiding Sweetgrass
- Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
- By: Robin Wall Kimmerer
- Narrated by: Robin Wall Kimmerer
- Length: 16 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall417
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Performance375
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Story370
As a botanist and professor of plant ecology, Robin Wall Kimmerer has spent a career learning how to ask questions of nature using the tools of science....
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The Lost Tribe
- By Joanne McInnes on 29-03-2018
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All About Love
- New Visions
- By: bell hooks
- Narrated by: January LaVoy
- Length: 6 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall21
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Performance20
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Story20
A New York Times bestseller and enduring classic, All About Love is the acclaimed first volume in feminist icon bell hooks' ""Love Song to the Nation"" trilogy. All About Love reveals what causes a polarized society, and how to heal the divisions that cause suffering. Here is the truth about...
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To know and experience love is to surrender the will to power.
- By Anonymous on 04-08-2024
By: bell hooks
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
- As Told to Alex Haley
- By: Malcolm X, Alex Haley
- Narrated by: Laurence Fishburne
- Length: 16 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall335
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Performance296
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Story294
In this searing classic autobiography, originally published in 1965, Malcolm X, the Muslim leader, firebrand, and Black empowerment activist, tells the extraordinary story of his life and the growth of the Human Rights movement....
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I have been recommending this to everyone
- By Timothy Llewellyn on 16-11-2021
By: Malcolm X, and others
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Näku Dhäruk: The Bark Petitions
- How the People of Yirrkala Changed the Course of Australian Democracy
- By: Clare Wright
- Narrated by: Clare Wright, Greg Fryer
- Length: 22 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1
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Performance1
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Story1
In 1963 – a year of agitation for civil rights worldwide – the Yolŋu of northeast Arnhem Land created the Yirrkala Bark Petitions: Näku Dhäruk. ‘The land grew a tongue’ and the land-rights movement was born.
By: Clare Wright
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Decolonizing Methodologies (3rd Edition)
- Research and Indigenous Peoples
- By: Linda Tuhiwai Smith
- Narrated by: Ruby Hansen
- Length: 13 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall0
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Performance0
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Story0
To the colonized, the term 'research' is conflated with European colonialism; the ways in which academic research has been implicated in the throes of imperialism remains a painful memory.
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Tidying the Abyss
- A Practical Guide to Cleaning and Organizing While Exhausted and Overwhelmed
- By: Amanda Dodson
- Narrated by: Amanda Dodson
- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall0
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Performance0
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A gentle, hands-on resource offering mental health-sensitive, disability-informed advice for those who do not have the privilege, bandwidth, or access to keep their home—and life—in a perfectly-ordered state. When we see people in desperate situations, we are quick to sympathize but also...
By: Amanda Dodson
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Braiding Sweetgrass
- Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
- By: Robin Wall Kimmerer
- Narrated by: Robin Wall Kimmerer
- Length: 16 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall417
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Performance375
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Story370
As a botanist and professor of plant ecology, Robin Wall Kimmerer has spent a career learning how to ask questions of nature using the tools of science....
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The Lost Tribe
- By Joanne McInnes on 29-03-2018
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All About Love
- New Visions
- By: bell hooks
- Narrated by: January LaVoy
- Length: 6 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall21
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Performance20
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Story20
A New York Times bestseller and enduring classic, All About Love is the acclaimed first volume in feminist icon bell hooks' ""Love Song to the Nation"" trilogy. All About Love reveals what causes a polarized society, and how to heal the divisions that cause suffering. Here is the truth about...
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To know and experience love is to surrender the will to power.
- By Anonymous on 04-08-2024
By: bell hooks
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
- As Told to Alex Haley
- By: Malcolm X, Alex Haley
- Narrated by: Laurence Fishburne
- Length: 16 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall335
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Performance296
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Story294
In this searing classic autobiography, originally published in 1965, Malcolm X, the Muslim leader, firebrand, and Black empowerment activist, tells the extraordinary story of his life and the growth of the Human Rights movement....
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I have been recommending this to everyone
- By Timothy Llewellyn on 16-11-2021
By: Malcolm X, and others
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Näku Dhäruk: The Bark Petitions
- How the People of Yirrkala Changed the Course of Australian Democracy
- By: Clare Wright
- Narrated by: Clare Wright, Greg Fryer
- Length: 22 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1
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Performance1
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Story1
In 1963 – a year of agitation for civil rights worldwide – the Yolŋu of northeast Arnhem Land created the Yirrkala Bark Petitions: Näku Dhäruk. ‘The land grew a tongue’ and the land-rights movement was born.
By: Clare Wright
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Decolonizing Methodologies (3rd Edition)
- Research and Indigenous Peoples
- By: Linda Tuhiwai Smith
- Narrated by: Ruby Hansen
- Length: 13 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall0
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Performance0
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Story0
To the colonized, the term 'research' is conflated with European colonialism; the ways in which academic research has been implicated in the throes of imperialism remains a painful memory.
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Tidying the Abyss
- A Practical Guide to Cleaning and Organizing While Exhausted and Overwhelmed
- By: Amanda Dodson
- Narrated by: Amanda Dodson
- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall0
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Performance0
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Story0
A gentle, hands-on resource offering mental health-sensitive, disability-informed advice for those who do not have the privilege, bandwidth, or access to keep their home—and life—in a perfectly-ordered state. When we see people in desperate situations, we are quick to sympathize but also...
By: Amanda Dodson
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The Teachings of Don Juan
- A Yaqui Way of Knowledge
- By: Carlos Castaneda
- Narrated by: Luis Moreno
- Length: 10 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall39
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Performance30
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Story31
For over 40 years, Carlos Castaneda’s The Teachings of Don Juan has inspired audiences to expand their world view beyond traditional Western forms....
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wordy and robotic.
- By Robyn Mcmurrsy on 28-01-2024
By: Carlos Castaneda
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Fifth Sun
- A New History of the Aztecs
- By: Camilla Townsend
- Narrated by: Christina Delaine
- Length: 12 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall15
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Performance15
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Story15
For the first time, in Fifth Sun, the history of the Aztecs is offered in all its complexity based solely on the texts written by the indigenous people themselves....
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Fascinating new information
- By Anonymous on 12-04-2025
By: Camilla Townsend
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Total Reset
- Realigning with Our Timeless Holistic Blueprint for Living
- By: Greg Campbell
- Narrated by: Mark Coles Smith
- Length: 36 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5
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Performance5
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Story5
When anyone looks at reality through the lens of original knowledge such as that shared in Total Reset, it opens boundless opportunities for innovative solutions to remove threats to the continuity of all life and drive a return to balance....
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The Beauty of Being Alive
- By MH on 03-04-2025
By: Greg Campbell
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The Lakota Way
- Stories and Lessons for Living
- By: Joseph M. Marshall
- Narrated by: Joseph M. Marshall
- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall44
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Performance42
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Story42
Compelling and profound, The Lakota Way gives a fresh outlook to those searching for a new perspective on spiritual and ethical living....
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An incredible and inspiring listen.
- By tommyomm on 15-06-2017
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Quarterly Essay 64: The Australian Dream
- By: Stan Grant
- Narrated by: Stan Grant
- Length: 3 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall83
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Performance74
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Story73
In a landmark essay, Stan Grant writes indigenous people back into the economic and multicultural history of Australia....
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Stan Grant rocks!
- By Johann Gray on 09-11-2017
By: Stan Grant
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Empire of Normality
- Neurodiversity and Capitalism
- By: Robert Chapman
- Narrated by: Elliot Fitzpatrick
- Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5
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Performance4
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Story4
Beyond simplistic narratives of normativity and difference, this groundbreaking book exposes the very myth of the 'normal' brain as a product of intensified capitalism.
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Fascinating and helpful
- By Tai McQueen on 09-09-2025
By: Robert Chapman
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Black Elk Speaks
- Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux, The Premier Edition
- By: John G. Neihardt
- Narrated by: Robin Neihardt
- Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall42
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Performance37
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Story38
Widely hailed as a spiritual classic, this inspirational and unfailingly powerful story reveals the life and visions of the Lakota healer Nicholas Black Elk....
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an Incredible, harrowing story of the first nations people
- By Anonymous on 13-10-2024
By: John G. Neihardt
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The Journey of Crazy Horse
- A Lakota History
- By: Joseph M. Marshall III
- Narrated by: Joseph M. Marshall III
- Length: 10 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall85
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Performance73
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Story73
Most of the world remembers Crazy Horse as a peerless warrior who brought the U.S. Army to its knees at the Battle of Little Bighorn....
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sensational book
- By Anonymous on 28-09-2020
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Freedom Is a Constant Struggle
- Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement
- By: Angela Y. Davis
- Narrated by: Angela Davis, Coleen Marlo
- Length: 5 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall37
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Performance32
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Story31
Angela Y. Davis illuminates the connections between struggles against state violence and oppression throughout history and around the world....
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Brilliant! A must read for everybody!
- By Alison on 18-05-2020
By: Angela Y. Davis
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Permission to Come Home
- Reclaiming Mental Health as Asian Americans
- By: Jenny Wang
- Narrated by: Jenny Wang
- Length: 9 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall6
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Performance6
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Story6
Strengthen your sense of well-being and embrace empowering new approaches with this invaluable investigation into mental health in the Asian American community. Asian Americans are experiencing a racial reckoning regarding their identity, inspiring them to radically reconsider the cultural...
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Connection to her stories
- By Anna on 27-07-2025
By: Jenny Wang
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Teaching Critical Thinking
- Practical Wisdom
- By: Bell Hooks
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 6 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1
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Performance1
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Story1
In Teaching Critical Thinking, renowned cultural critic and progressive educator Bell Hooks addresses some of the most compelling issues facing teachers in and out of the classroom today.
By: Bell Hooks
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Journey to Ixtlan
- The Lessons of Don Juan
- By: Carlos Castaneda
- Narrated by: Luis Moreno
- Length: 10 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall33
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Performance30
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Story30
In this controversial work, Castanada relays his experiences being challenged by his mentor on his perception of the world and all living things in it....
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Perfect
- By Jonathan D on 25-10-2023
By: Carlos Castaneda
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Ain't I a Woman
- Black Women and Feminism (2nd Edition)
- By: bell hooks
- Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo
- Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall26
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Performance21
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Story21
A classic work of feminist scholarship, Ain't I a Woman has become a must for all those interested in the nature of Black womanhood....
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A true class regarding feminism
- By Aline Arruda on 31-12-2022
By: bell hooks
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Growing up Aboriginal in Australia
- By: Anita Heiss
- Narrated by: Gregory J Fryer, Hunter Page-Lochard, Lisa Maza, and others
- Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall295
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Performance255
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Story253
What is it like to grow up Aboriginal in Australia? This anthology, compiled by award-winning author Anita Heiss, showcases many diverse voices, experiences and stories in order to answer that question....
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Great honest storytelling
- By Anonymous on 29-11-2018
By: Anita Heiss
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Human?
- A Lie That's Been Killing Us since 1788
- By: Ziggy Ramo
- Narrated by: Ziggy Ramo
- Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4
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Performance4
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Story4
So-called Australia is built upon a lie: that 97% of the population are human, and the others simply 'Indigenous', devoid of the same basic rights.
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Deep honesty and Truth Telling
- By Anonymous on 04-01-2025
By: Ziggy Ramo
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A History of Japan
- Revised Edition
- By: R. H. P. Mason, J. G. Caiger
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 13 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall20
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Performance18
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Story18
A classic of Japanese history, this audiobook is the preeminent work on the history of Japan. Newly revised and updated, A History of Japan is a single-volume complete history of the nation of Japan....
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The best general history of Japan in any language
- By Anonymous on 19-06-2024
By: R. H. P. Mason, and others
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A Separate Reality
- Further Conversations with Don Juan
- By: Carlos Castaneda
- Narrated by: Luis Moreno
- Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall39
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Performance32
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Story31
With The Teachings of Don Juan, Carlos Castaneda chronicled a journey toward enlightenment under the tutelage ofYaqui Indian guru don Juan....
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Well written spiritual book.
- By Simon on 03-02-2022
By: Carlos Castaneda
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Another Day in the Colony
- By: Chelsea Watego
- Narrated by: Chelsea Watego
- Length: 5 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall115
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Performance106
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Story105
A ground-breaking work—and a call to arms—that exposes the ongoing colonial violence experienced by First Nations people....
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A powerful call to sovereignty
- By Hannah McCauley on 21-07-2022
By: Chelsea Watego
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Always Was, Always Will Be
- The Campaign for Justice and Recognition Continues
- By: Thomas Mayo
- Narrated by: Thomas Mayo
- Length: 5 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall8
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Performance8
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Story8
Since the referendum, supporters and volunteers have been asking for guidance as to how to continue to support Indigenous recognition. Mayo, a leader of the Yes 23 campaign and co-author of the bestselling The Voice to Parliament Handbook, has produced a new audiobook to answer that question.
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Gives us hope
- By Brett on 10-09-2024
By: Thomas Mayo
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Fetishized
- A Reckoning with Yellow Fever, Feminism, and Beauty
- By: Kaila Yu
- Narrated by: Kaila Yu
- Length: 7 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall0
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Performance0
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A “raw and lyrical” (New York Times) memoir-in-essays from former pinup model and lead singer of Nylon Pink Kaila Yu, reckoning with being an object of Asian fetish and how media, pop culture, and colonialism contributed to the oversexualization of Asian women. No one fetishized Kaila Yu...
By: Kaila Yu
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Where You Are Is Not Who You Are
- A Memoir
- By: Ursula Burns
- Narrated by: Ursula Burns
- Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5
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Performance4
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Story4
The first Black female CEO of a Fortune 500 company looks back at her life and her career at Xerox, sharing unique insights on American business and corporate life, the workers she has always valued, racial and economic justice, how greed is threatening democracy, and the obstacles she’s...
By: Ursula Burns
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Rising Heart: One Woman's Astonishing Journey from Unimaginable Trauma to Becoming a Power for Good
- By: Aminata Conteh-Biger, Juliet Rieden
- Narrated by: Zindzi Okenyo
- Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall47
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Performance37
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Story37
In 1999, Sierra Leone was in the midst of a brutal civil war where mindless violence, vicious amputation and the rape of young enslaved women were the everyday weapons of bloody conflict....
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I couldn’t turn it off - The queen of grit and grace!
- By Julie Orton on 28-08-2020
By: Aminata Conteh-Biger, and others
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You Are More Than Your Body
- 30+ Evidence-Based Strategies for Living Well with Chronic Illness--By a clinical therapist living with cerebral palsy
- By: Jennifer Caspari Phd
- Narrated by: Eleanor Caudill
- Length: 4 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall0
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Performance0
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A gentle, supportive guide to developing coping skills and improving quality of life for disabled and chronically ill people Managing the stresses of everyday life can be exhausting and overwhelming. Dr. Jennifer Caspari knows this struggle well—both through her work as a clinical psychologist...
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Korea
- The Impossible Country
- By: Daniel Tudor
- Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
- Length: 13 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall13
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Performance13
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Story13
South Korea's amazing rise from the ashes: the inside story of an economic, political, and cultural phenomenon....
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Very in-depth view into historic and modern Korean society
- By JS in Melbourne on 06-01-2025
By: Daniel Tudor
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APARTHEID TROPICAL - Segunda Temporada
- By: Thiago André
- Narrated by: Thiago André
- Length: 6 hrs
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Nesta nova temporada, Apartheid Tropical narra como, diante do fracasso das promessas constitucionais, a população negra precisou se reorganizar e reinventar a resistência.
By: Thiago André
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Project 2030
- The Agenda for Black America
- By: Sean T. Long MBA, Denise Smith, Johnny Sellers, and others
- Narrated by: Sean T. Long MBA
- Length: 16 hrs
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Project 2030 is more than a book—it’s a blueprint for transformation. At a time when racial wealth gaps are widening, health inequities persist, and democracy itself feels fragile, Sean T. Long and a team of visionary co-authors deliver a bold, actionable plan to move Black America from survival to power. Built on six interconnected pillars—Economic Empowerment, Educational Equity, Health Justice, Criminal Justice Reform, Political Empowerment, and Technological Equity—Project 2030 lays out the structural changes, policies, and cultural shifts necessary to build lasting progress.
By: Sean T. Long MBA, and others
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We See Things They’ll Never See
- Love, Hope, and Neurodiversity
- By: Chantelle Jessica Lewis, Jason Arday
- Narrated by: Diana Blue
- Length: 8 hrs
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Ableism is embedded in our daily lives. Social life, education, work, and, especially, mental health have been organized around rigid ideas of the "ideal" and the "normal" citizen—ideas that always exclude neurodiversity. In this pathbreaking book, Chantelle Jessica Lewis and Jason Arday argue that the neurodiversity movement offers ways to mobilize against not only ableism but also other "isms" including racism and capitalism.
By: Chantelle Jessica Lewis, and others
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The Darién Gap
- A Reporter's Journey Through the Deadly Crossroads of the Americas
- By: Belén Fernández
- Narrated by: Bianca Bryan
- Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
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The narrow Darién Gap, the only land bridge connecting South and Central America, encompasses a spectacularly hostile jungle, covered in steep mountains, dense rainforests, and flood-prone marshes. Known in Spanish as el infierno verde, or “the green hell,” it is one of the most inhospitable places in the world. Its terrain is too treacherous for roads, yet hundreds of thousands of refuge seekers contend with its horrors every year in the hopes of reaching the United States, still some three thousand miles away. And of the countless who set out for the border, an untold number never arrive.
By: Belén Fernández
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Popcorn Disabilities
- The Highs and Lows of Disabled Representation in the Movies
- By: Kristen Lopez, Ben Mankiewicz - foreword
- Narrated by: Francine Brody
- Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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You can learn a lot from the movies—about sex and relationships, about business, about history. Sure, there’s a fair amount of fantasy, wish fulfillment, and glorious hair to exaggerate everything, but for better or for worse, films remain one of the most important ways that viewers around the world learn about other people and cultures. And almost since the dawn of the medium, movies have shaped the public’s understanding of and assumptions about disability.
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The Secrets of Silence
- The Everyday Policing of Black Women and Their Stories About Violence
- By: Shannon Malone Gonzalez
- Narrated by: Sanya Simmons
- Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
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In The Secrets of Silence, Shannon Malone Gonzalez investigates how the policing of black women is tied to the policing of their stories. Over a period of four years, Malone Gonzalez conducted intimate life-history interviews with black women about their encounters, listening to those who had never shared their stories before, had never even been asked to, or had tried repeatedly to speak to those around them to no avail. They all described the unspoken or whispered connections in the ways officers and communities socially control black women to put them "in their place."
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APARTHEID TROPICAL - Segunda Temporada
- By: Thiago André
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Project 2030
- The Agenda for Black America
- By: Sean T. Long MBA, Denise Smith, Johnny Sellers, and others
- Narrated by: Sean T. Long MBA
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Project 2030 is more than a book—it’s a blueprint for transformation. At a time when racial wealth gaps are widening, health inequities persist, and democracy itself feels fragile, Sean T. Long and a team of visionary co-authors deliver a bold, actionable plan to move Black America from survival to power. Built on six interconnected pillars—Economic Empowerment, Educational Equity, Health Justice, Criminal Justice Reform, Political Empowerment, and Technological Equity—Project 2030 lays out the structural changes, policies, and cultural shifts necessary to build lasting progress.
By: Sean T. Long MBA, and others
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- Love, Hope, and Neurodiversity
- By: Chantelle Jessica Lewis, Jason Arday
- Narrated by: Diana Blue
- Length: 8 hrs
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Ableism is embedded in our daily lives. Social life, education, work, and, especially, mental health have been organized around rigid ideas of the "ideal" and the "normal" citizen—ideas that always exclude neurodiversity. In this pathbreaking book, Chantelle Jessica Lewis and Jason Arday argue that the neurodiversity movement offers ways to mobilize against not only ableism but also other "isms" including racism and capitalism.
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The narrow Darién Gap, the only land bridge connecting South and Central America, encompasses a spectacularly hostile jungle, covered in steep mountains, dense rainforests, and flood-prone marshes. Known in Spanish as el infierno verde, or “the green hell,” it is one of the most inhospitable places in the world. Its terrain is too treacherous for roads, yet hundreds of thousands of refuge seekers contend with its horrors every year in the hopes of reaching the United States, still some three thousand miles away. And of the countless who set out for the border, an untold number never arrive.
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The Secrets of Silence
- The Everyday Policing of Black Women and Their Stories About Violence
- By: Shannon Malone Gonzalez
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In The Secrets of Silence, Shannon Malone Gonzalez investigates how the policing of black women is tied to the policing of their stories. Over a period of four years, Malone Gonzalez conducted intimate life-history interviews with black women about their encounters, listening to those who had never shared their stories before, had never even been asked to, or had tried repeatedly to speak to those around them to no avail. They all described the unspoken or whispered connections in the ways officers and communities socially control black women to put them "in their place."