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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/334479 to listen full audiobooks. Title: [Spanish] - La batalla por el paraíso: Puerto Rico y el capitalismo del desastre Author: Naomi Klein Narrator: Valentina Latina Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 4 minutes Release date: June 1, 2018 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Entre los escombros del huracán Maria, los puertorriqueños y los “Puertopians” ultra-ricos están atrapados en una batalla campal sobre cómo reconstruir la isla. En esta vital y asombrosa investigación, la autora de best-sellers y activista Naomi Klein, revela cómo las fuerzas de las políticas de 'shock' y del capitalismo del desastre, buscan minar la visión radical y resiliente de una recuperación justa. El cien por ciento de las regalías por la venta de este libro irán directamente a JunteGente, un espacio de encuentro entre organizaciones en resistencia al capitalismo del desastre y que luchan por una recuperación justa y sostenible de Puerto Rico. Para más información visite http://juntegente.org/ Naomi Klein es una periodista, columnista, documentalista internacionalmente reconocida por sus best-sellers No Logo: El poder de las marcas, La doctrina del shock: El auge del Capitalismo del desastre, Esto lo cambia todo: El capitalismo contra el clima y Decir no, no basta. Klein es uno de los principales corresponsales del the Intercept y colaboradora de la revista the Nation. Es escritora asociada de la Puffin Foundation en the Nation Institute, y su trabajo se publica para diarios progresistas como the New York Times, Le Monde y the Guardian. Klein es miembro de la junta directiva del grupo activista medioambiental 350.org y colaboradora del Leap Manifesto de Canadá, una iniciativa para una rápida transición basada en la justicia de los combustibles fósiles. En noviembre de 2016 Klein fue galardonada con el prestigioso Premio de la Paz de Sidney, según el jurado del premio, por “inspirarnos a defendernos a nivel local, nacional e internacional exigiendo un nuevo proyecto para cohabitar el planeta respetando los derechos humanos y la igualdad”.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/336639 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Letters to an American Christian Author: Bruce Riley Ashford Narrator: Lyle Blaker Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 51 minutes Release date: June 1, 2018 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: What does it mean to be an American Christian? In Letters to an American Christian, Bruce Riley Ashford, author of One Nation Under God, addresses overarching issues of the relationship of Christianity and politics, speaks to the way historic Christian belief informs specific hot-button political issues, and challenges readers to take seriously both our heavenly and earthly citizenships. Written as a series of letters to 'Christian'—a young college student who is a new believer—Letters to an American Christian will help every reader think carefully about how Christianity informs what it means to be an American. In the midst of a rapidly changing national and political landscape, Letters to an American Christian reminds us of two important truths: we cannot afford to shrink away from our earthly citizenship, and we cannot afford to lose sight of our heavenly citizenship.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/335551 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America Author: Kathleen Belew Narrator: Jo Anna Perrin Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 36 minutes Release date: May 29, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 1 of Total 1 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: The white power movement in America wants a revolution. It has declared all-out war against the federal government and its agents, and has carried out—with military precision—an escalating campaign of terror against the American public. Its soldiers are not lone wolves but are highly organized cadres motivated by a coherent and deeply troubling worldview of white supremacy, anticommunism, and apocalypse. In Bring the War Home, Kathleen Belew gives us the first full history of the movement that consolidated in the 1970s and 1980s around a potent sense of betrayal in the Vietnam War and made tragic headlines in the 1995 bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building. Returning to an America ripped apart by a war that, in their view, they were not allowed to win, a small but driven group of veterans, active-duty personnel, and civilian supporters concluded that waging war on their own country was justified. They unified people from a variety of militant groups, including Klansmen, neo-Nazis, skinheads, radical tax protestors, and white separatists. The white power movement operated with discipline and clarity, undertaking assassinations, mercenary soldiering, armed robbery, counterfeiting, and weapons trafficking. Its command structure gave women a prominent place in brokering intergroup alliances and giving birth to future recruits. Belew's disturbing history reveals how war cannot be contained in time and space. In its wake, grievances intensify and violence becomes a logical course of action for some. Bring the War Home argues for awareness of the heightened potential for paramilitarism in a present defined by ongoing war.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/335507 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Stone's Rules: How to Win at Politics, Business, and Style Author: Roger Stone Narrator: Paul Costanzo Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 48 minutes Release date: May 22, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.33 of Total 9 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 3 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: At long last, America’s most notorious political operative has released his operating manual! A freedom fighter to his admirers, a dirty trickster to his detractors, the flamboyant, outrageous, articulate, and extraordinarily well-dressed Roger Stone lays out Stone’s Rules—the maxims that have governed his legendary career as a campaign operative for four American presidents, from Richard Nixon to Donald Trump. As a raconteur, pundit, prognosticator, and battle-scarred veteran of America’s political wars, Roger Stone shares his lessons on punking liberals and playing the media, gives an inside look at his push to legalize marijuana, details how much linen to show at the cuff of an impeccably-cut suit, lays out how and why LBJ orchestrated the murder of JFK, and reveals how to make the truly great marinara sauce that is the foundation of Stone’s legendary Sunday Gravy. Part Machiavelli's The Prince, part Sun Tzu’s The Art of War, Stone’s Rules is an operating manual for navigating the rough-and-tumble of life.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/334157 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The White House Queen: The Elegance and Strength of Michelle Obama Author: Raymond Sturgis Narrator: Syreeta Divine Mass Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 1 hour 38 minutes Release date: May 10, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 3.33 of Total 3 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: First Lady Michelle Obama is a remarkable figure, and author Raymond Sturgis carefully selected the words of this book to highlight the passion and life of Michelle Obama. Many know of her many achievements, however, what about her agenda to help change the nutritional conditions of America's children. Also, her outstanding stance to help educate children and those that need quality education and living conditions stem from her background of community and education. See, Mrs. Obama majored in sociology and minored in African American studies and graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts in 1985. She earned her Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree from Harvard Law School in 1988. At Harvard she participated in demonstrations advocating the hiring of professors who were members of minorities and worked for the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau, assisting low-income tenants with housing cases. Although she understands that everything she does is under a microscope, and her critics would always search and find the nearest Television monitor to highlight her faults, she remains firm to her cause of helping others. This book is a wonderful composite of literature that celebrates the love and respect of Michelle Obama, who is second to none in quality, leadership, and character.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/345683 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Infinite Hope: How Wrongful Conviction, Solitary Confinement, and 12 Years on Death Row Failed to Kill My Soul Author: Anthony Graves Narrator: Leon Nixon Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 47 minutes Release date: January 16, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 3 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Written by a wrongfully convicted man who spent 16 years in solitary confinement and 12 years on death row, a powerful memoir about fighting for—and winning—exoneration. In the summer of 1992, a grandmother, a teenage girl, and four children under the age of ten were beaten and stabbed to death in Somerville, Texas. The perpetrator set the house on fire to cover his tracks, deepening the heinousness of the crime and rocking the tiny community to its core. Authorities were eager to make an arrest. Five days later, Anthony Graves was in custody. Graves, then twenty-six years old and without an attorney, was certain that his innocence was obvious. He did not know the victims, he had no knowledge about the crime, and he had an airtight alibi with witnesses. There was also no physical evidence linking him to the scene. Yet Graves was indicted, convicted of capital murder, sentenced to death, and, over the course of twelve years on death row, given two execution dates. He was not freed for eighteen years, two months, four days. Through years of suffering the whims of rogue prosecutors, vote-hungry district attorneys, and Texas State Rangers who played by their own rules, Graves was frequently exposed to the dire realities of being poor and black in the criminal justice system. He witnessed fellow inmates who became his friends and confidants be taken away, one by one, to their deaths. And he missed out on seeing his three young sons mature into men. Graves’s only solace was his infinite hope that the state would not execute him for a crime he did not commit. To maintain his dignity and sanity, Graves made sure as many people as possible knew about his case. He wrote letters to whomever he thought would listen. Pen pals in countries all over the world became allies, and he attracted the attention of a savvy legal team that overcame setback after setback, chiseling away at the state’s faulty case against him. Everyone’s efforts eventually worked. After Graves’s exoneration, the original prosecutor on his case was disbarred. Graves is one of a growing number of innocent people exonerated from death row. The moving account of his saga—of his ultimate fight for freedom from inside a prison cell—is as haunting as it is poignant, and as shameful to the legal system as it is inspiring to those on the losing end of it.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/336601 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The 15:17 to Paris: The True Story of a Terrorist, a Train and Three American Heroes Author: Spencer Stone, Alek Skarlatos, Anthony Sadler Narrator: Peter Ganim Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 49 minutes Release date: December 28, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: The 15:17 to Paris is an amazing true story of friendship and bravery, of near terrorist attack averted by three young men who found the heroic unity and strength inside themselves at the moment when they, and 500 other innocent travellers, needed it most. An ISIS terrorist planned to kill more than 500 people. He would have succeeded except for three American friends who refused to give in to fear. On August 21, 2015, Ayoub El-Khazzani boarded train #9364 in Brussels, bound for Paris. There could be no doubt about his mission: he had an AK-47, a pistol, a box cutter, and enough ammunition to obliterate every passenger on board. Slipping into the bathroom in secret, he armed his weapons. Another major ISIS attack was about to begin. Khazzani wasn't expecting Anthony Sadler, Alek Skarlatos, and Spencer Stone. Stone was a martial arts enthusiast and airman first class in the US Air Force, Skarlatos was a member of the Oregon National Guard, and all three were fearless. But their decision, to charge the gunman, then overpower him even as he turned first his gun, then his knife, on Stone, depended on a lifetime of loyalty, support, and faith. Their friendship was forged as they came of age together in California: going to church, playing paintball, teaching each other to swear, and sticking together when they got in trouble at school. Years later, that friendship would give all of them the courage to stand in the path of one of the world's deadliest terrorist organizations. The 15:17 to Paris is an amazing true story of friendship and bravery, of near tragedy averted by three young men who found the heroic unity and strength inside themselves at the moment when they, and 500 other innocent travellers, needed it most.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/336578 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Life of Crime: The Memoirs of a High Court Judge Author: Harry Ognall Narrator: Mike Grady Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 7 minutes Release date: November 2, 2017 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: A frank and witty memoir of life at the Bar and on the Bench, from former High Court Judge The Hon. Sir Harry Ognall. For many years, Harry Ognall enjoyed a formidable reputation as an advocate at the criminal Bar. As counsel, and later as judge, he was involved in numerous high-profile trials, both in Britain and abroad. Among many cases as a QC, he prosecuted Peter Sutcliffe, the so-called ‘Yorkshire Ripper’. He successfully defended six officers of the Air Force of Zimbabwe at their trial in Harare, where they faced a charge of treasonable sabotage. As a judge, he presided over the trial of Colin Stagg (the alleged ‘Wimbledon Common murderer’), the trial arising from the Lyme Bay canoe tragedy and the trial for the first time in the United Kingdom of a doctor’s alleged involvement in euthanasia. Thoughtful and provocative, Sir Harry has advice for the aspiring young advocate, and invests this penetrating memoir with warmth, humour and understanding. His frank portrait of a lifetime in the criminal law offers unique perspectives on some of the most notorious cases of the twentieth century, as well as fascinating insights into a colourful professional life and the burdens and responsibilities that come with the privilege of high judicial office.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/335002 to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Middletown, America: One Town's Passage from Trauma to Hope Author: Gail Sheehy Narrator: Sandra Burr Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 17 hours 46 minutes Release date: May 16, 2017 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: The single event that we know as 9/11 is over, but the shock waves continue to radiate outward, generated by orange alerts, terrorism lockdowns, and the shrinking of personal liberties we once took for granted. The stories in this book, of real people faced with extraordinary trauma and gradually transcending it, are the best antidote to our fears. Middletown, America is a book of hope. All Americans were hit with some degree of trauma on September 11, 2001, but no place was hit harder than Middletown, New Jersey. Gail Sheehy spent the better part of two years walking the journey from grief toward renewal with fifty members of the community that lost more people in the World Trade Center than any other outside New York City. Her subjects are the women, men, and children who remained after the devastation and who are putting their lives back together. Sheehy tells the story of four widowed moms from New Jersey who started out scarcely knowing the difference between the House and the Senate, yet turned their sorrow and anger into action and became formidable witnesses to the failures of the country’s leadership to connect the dots before September 11. Sheehy follows the four moms as they fight White House attempts to thwart the independent commission investigating 9/11 and expose efforts at a cover-up. What would become of the young wives carrying children their husbands would never see, wives who had watched their dreams literally go up in smoke in that amphitheater of death across the river? Amazingly, each finds her own door to the light. Here, too, is the story of the widow and widower who met in the waiting room of a mental-health agency and brought each other back from the brink of despair across a bridge of love. Sheehy also reveals how bereft mothers who will never have another son or daughter found reasons to recommit to life. And she follows in the footsteps of the robbed children, documenting the incredible resilience of four-year-olds, the anger of teenagers, the courage of sisters and brothers. Sheehy follows survivors who escaped the burning towers only to find themselves trapped inside a tower of inner torment, from which it took love, family, and faith to free themselves. She is taken into the confidence of the night crew at Ground Zero, police officers who worked in that pit for eight months straight and then faced the “returning home” phenomenon. She recounts the confessions of religious leaders who struggled to explain the inexplicable to their flocks. Mental-health professionals confide in her, as do corporate chiefs, educators, friends and neighbors, town officials, and volunteers who rose to the occasion and committed themselves to healing their wounded community. As a journalist who conducted more than nine hundred interviews, Gail Sheehy is an impeccable researcher. As a writer with a novelistic gift, she weaves the individual stories into a compelling narrative. Middletown, America illuminates every stage of a tumultuous passage—from shock, passivity, and panic attacks, to rising anger and deep grieving, and on to the secret romances and startling relapses, the realignment of faith, the return of a capacity to love and be loved, and, finally, the commitment to constructing new lives.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/342982 to listen full audiobooks. Title: In Search of Enemies: A CIA Story Author: John Stockwell Narrator: Tom West Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 45 minutes Release date: October 28, 2011 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: 'Secret wars' waged by CIA task-forces are usually confined to the pages of spy-thrillers. But when the storyteller is the former Section Chief in charge of planning and field operations in Angola, and his story is true, the 'spy thriller' becomes chilling fact.