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    • A Novel
    • By: Robin Yocum
    • Narrated by: Fleet Cooper
    • Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 02-08-13
    • Language: English
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    • Jimmy Lee Hickam grew up along Red Dog Road, a dead-end strip of gravel and mud buried deep in the bowels of Appalachian Ohio....

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    • By: E. B. White
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    • Length: 12 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 06-07-16
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    • Legendary author and essayist E. B. White writes, "The essayist is a self-liberated man, sustained by the childish belief that everything he thinks about is of general interest....

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    • Essays
    • By: Kiese Laymon
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    • Length: 3 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 01-13-15
    • Language: English
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    • How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America is a collection of Laymon's essays, touching on subjects ranging from family, race, violence, and celebrity....

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    • Crossing Press Feminist Series, Book 1
    • By: Audre Lorde
    • Narrated by: Robin Eller
    • Length: 7 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 04-26-16
    • Language: English
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    • Presenting the essential writings of black lesbian poet and feminist writer Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider celebrates an influential voice in 20th-century literature....

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    • By: George Orwell
    • Narrated by: Alex Hyde-White
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    • Release date: 10-01-19
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    • With great originality and wit, Orwell unfolds his views on subjects ranging from a revaluation of Charles Dickens to the nature of Socialism, from a comic yet profound discussion of naughty seaside postcards to a spirited defense of English cooking....

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    • An American Lyric
    • By: Claudia Rankine
    • Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
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    • Release date: 04-21-15
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    • Claudia Rankine's bold new audiobook recounts mounting racial aggressions in ongoing encounters in 21st-century daily life and in the media....

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    • By: Jonathan Swift
    • Narrated by: Robert Blumenfeld
    • Length: 9 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 01-24-11
    • Language: English
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    • A Modest Proposal, is a Juvenalian satirical essay written and published anonymously by Jonathan Swift in 1729....

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    • Essays
    • By: Elissa Washuta
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    • Length: 11 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 05-18-21
    • Language: English
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    • Throughout her life, Elissa Washuta has been surrounded by cheap facsimiles of Native spiritual tools and occult trends, "starter witch kits" of sage, rose quartz, and tarot cards packaged together in paper and plastic....

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    • Essays
    • By: David Rakoff
    • Narrated by: David Rakoff
    • Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 09-21-10
    • Language: English
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    • The inimitably witty David Rakoff, New York Times best-selling author of Don’t Get Too Comfortable, defends the commonsensical notion that you should always assume the worst, because you’ll never be disappointed....

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    • By: Oswald Sobrino
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    • Release date: 01-23-24
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    • Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) was known as the Sage of Concord, i.e., Concord, Massachusetts, outside Boston and site of "the shot heard round ...

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    • By: Matthew Arnold
    • Narrated by: Michael Maloney
    • Length: 6 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 05-13-13
    • Language: English
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    • Culture and Anarchy is a series of periodical essays by Matthew Arnold, first published in Cornhill Magazine 1867-68 and collected as a book in 1869....

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    • By: Samuel Smiles
    • Narrated by: Walter Dixon
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    • Release date: 01-13-17
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    • Self Help was published in 1859 by Samuel Smiles. It has been called "the bible of mid-Victorian liberalism"....

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    • Racial Myths and Our American Narratives
    • By: David Mura
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    • The police murders of two Black men, Philando Castile and George Floyd, frame this searing exploration of the historical and fictional narratives that white America tells itself to justify and maintain white supremacy.

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    • An American Lyric
    • By: Claudia Rankine
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    • Length: 1 hr and 35 mins
    • Release date: 11-09-21
    • Language: English
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    • I forget things too. It makes me sad. Or it makes me the saddest. The sadness is not really about George W. or our American optimism; the sadness lives in the recognition that a life can not matter....

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