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Title: Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality 

Author: Tomiko Brown-Nagin

Narrator: Karen Chilton

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 15 hours 57 minutes

Release date: January 25, 2022

Genres: Law & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

A TIME BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • The first major biography of one of our most influential judges—an activist lawyer who became the first Black woman appointed to the federal judiciary—that provides an eye-opening account of the twin struggles for gender equality and civil rights in the 20th Century. • “Timely and essential.'—The Washington Post “A must-read for anyone who dares to believe that equal justice under the law is possible and is in search of a model for how to make it a reality.” —Anita Hill With the US Supreme Court confirmation of Ketanji Brown Jackson, “it makes sense to revisit the life and work of another Black woman who profoundly shaped the law: Constance Baker Motley” (CNN). Born to an aspirational blue-collar family during the Great Depression, Constance Baker Motley was expected to find herself a good career as a hair dresser. Instead, she became the first black woman to argue a case in front of the Supreme Court, the first of ten she would eventually argue. The only black woman member in the legal team at the NAACP's Inc. Fund at the time, she defended Martin Luther King in Birmingham, helped to argue in Brown vs. The Board of Education, and played a critical role in vanquishing Jim Crow laws throughout the South. She was the first black woman elected to the state Senate in New York, the first woman elected Manhattan Borough President, and the first black woman appointed to the federal judiciary.      Civil Rights Queen captures the story of a remarkable American life, a figure who remade law and inspired the imaginations of African Americans across the country. Burnished with an extraordinary wealth of research, award-winning, esteemed Civil Rights and legal historian and dean of the Harvard Radcliffe Institute, Tomiko Brown-Nagin brings Motley to life in these pages. Brown-Nagin compels us to ponder some of our most timeless and urgent questions--how do the historically marginalized access the corridors of power? What is the price of the ticket? How does access to power shape individuals committed to social justice? In Civil Rights Queen, she dramatically fills out the picture of some of the most profound judicial and societal change made in twentieth-century America.

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Title: The Ticket Collector from Belarus: An Extraordinary True Story of Britain's Only War Crimes Trial

Author: Mike Anderson, Neil Hanson

Narrator: Luke Thompson

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 11 hours 23 minutes

Release date: January 20, 2022

Genres: Law & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

'Brilliantly gripping' Sunday Times; 'Compelling' Daily Mail; 'Heart-rending' Sunday Telegraph; 'Excellent' The Times; 'Engrossing' Independent The UK's only war crimes trial took place in 1999 and had its origins in the horrors of the Holocaust, but only now in The Ticket Collector from Belarus? can the full story be told.   The Ticket Collector from Belarus tells the remarkable story of two interwoven journeys. Ben-Zion Blustein and Andrei Sawoniuk were childhood friends in 1930s Domachevo, a holiday and health resort in what is now Belarus. During the events that followed the Nazi invasion in 1941, they became the bitterest of enemies. After the war, Ben-Zion made his way to Israel, and ‘Andrusha the bastard’ to England, where he found work as a British Rail ticket collector in London. They next confronted each other in the Old Bailey, over half a century later, where one was the principal prosecution witness, and the other charged with a fraction of the number of murders he was alleged to have committed. There was no physical evidence, just one man’s word against another, leaving the jury with a series of agonising dilemmas: Could any witness statement be trusted so long after the event? Was Andrusha a brutal killer, a hapless pawn or a scapegoat? And were his furious protests a sign of guilt or the justified anger of an innocent old man?    Mike Anderson was gripped by the story, and so began his quest to find the truth about this astonishing case and the people at its heart. As he discovered, it was even more remarkable than he could ever have imagined.

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Title: A Taste for Poison: Eleven deadly substances and the killers who used them

Author: Neil Bradbury

Narrator: Derek Perkins

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 15 minutes

Release date: January 20, 2022

Genres: Law & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

’Indecently entertaining.’ A Daily Mail Book of the Week An Amazon US Best Book of 2022 'A fascinating tale of poisons and poisonous deeds which both educates and entertains.' — Kathy Reichs As any reader of murder mysteries can tell you, poison is one of the most enduring — and popular — weapons of choice for a scheming murderer. It can be slipped into a drink, smeared onto the tip of an arrow or the handle of a door, even filtered through the air we breathe. But how exactly do these poisons work to break our bodies down, and what can we learn from the damage they inflict? In a fascinating blend of popular science, medical history, and narrative crime nonfiction, Dr Neil Bradbury explores this most morbidly captivating method of murder from a cellular level. Alongside real-life accounts of murderers and their crimes —some notorious, some forgotten, some still unsolved — are the equally compelling stories of the poisons involved: eleven molecules of death that work their way through the human body and, paradoxically, illuminate the way in which our bodies function. Drawn from historical records and current news headlines, A Taste for Poison weaves together the fascinating tales of spurned lovers, shady scientists, medical professionals and political assassins, showing how the precise systems of the body can be impaired to lethal effect through the use of poison. From the deadly origins of the gin & tonic cocktail to the arsenic-laced wallpaper in Napoleon’s bedroom, A Taste for Poison leads readers on a fascinating tour of the intricate, complex systems that keep us alive — or don’t.

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Title: Walk with Me: A Biography of Fannie Lou Hamer

Author: Kate Clifford Larson

Narrator: Karen Chilton

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 13 hours 37 minutes

Release date: January 18, 2022

Genres: Law & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

She was born the 20th child in a family that had lived in the Mississippi Delta for generations, first as enslaved people and then as sharecroppers. She left school at 12 to pick cotton, as those before her had done, in a world in which white supremacy was an unassailable citadel. She was subjected without her consent to an operation that deprived her of children. And she was denied the most basic of all rights in America—the right to cast a ballot—in a state in which Blacks constituted nearly half the population.And so Fannie Lou Hamer lifted up her voice. Starting in the early 1960s and until her death in 1977, she was an irresistible force, not merely joining the swelling wave of change brought by civil rights but keeping it in motion. Working with the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), which recruited her to help with voter-registration drives, Hamer became a community organizer, women's rights activist, and co-founder of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. She summoned and used what she had against the citadel—her anger, her courage, her faith in the Bible, and her conviction that hearts could be won over and injustice overcome. She used her brutal beating at the hands of Mississippi police, an ordeal from which she never fully recovered, as the basis of a televised speech at the 1964 Democratic Convention, a speech that the mainstream party—including its standard-bearer, President Lyndon Johnson—tried to contain. But Fannie Lou Hamer would not be held back. For those whose lives she touched and transformed, for those who heard and followed her voice, she was the embodiment of protest, perseverance, and, most of all, the potential for revolutionary change.Kate Clifford Larson's biography of Fannie Lou Hamer is the most complete ever written, drawing on recently declassified sources on both Hamer and the civil rights movement, including unredacted FBI and Department of Justice files. It also makes full use of interviews with Civil Rights activists conducted by the Smithsonian and the Library of Congress, and Democratic National Committee archives, in addition to extensive conversations with Hamer's family and with those with whom she worked most closely. Stirring, immersive, and authoritative, Walk with Me does justice to Fannie Lou Hamer's life, capturing in full the spirit, and the voice, that led the fight for freedom and equality in America at its critical moment.'This biography of Fannie Lou Hamer, the civil-rights advocate who challenged Mississippi segregationists with her powerful oratory and 'unforgettable' singing, places grassroots organizing by women at the heart of the battle for Black enfranchisement.'—The New Yorker

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Title: An American Marriage: The Untold Story of Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd

Author: Michael Burlingame

Narrator: Stephen R. Thorne

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 12 hours 14 minutes

Release date: December 21, 2021

Genres: Law & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

An enlightening narrative exploring an oft-overlooked aspect of the sixteenth president's life, An American Marriage reveals the tragic story of Abraham Lincoln's marriage to Mary Todd. Based on thirty years of research, An American Marriage describes and analyzes why Lincoln had good reason to regret his marriage to Mary Todd. This revealing narrative shows that, as First Lady, Mary Lincoln accepted bribes and kickbacks, sold permits and pardons, engaged in extortion, and peddled influence. The listener comes to learn that Lincoln wed Mary Todd because, in all likelihood, she seduced him and then insisted that he protect her honor. Perhaps surprisingly, the 5'2' Mrs. Lincoln often physically abused her 6'4' husband, as well as her children and servants; she humiliated her husband in public; she caused him, as president, to fear that she would disgrace him publicly. Unlike her husband, she was not profoundly opposed to slavery and hardly qualifies as the 'ardent abolitionist' that some historians have portrayed. While she provided a useful stimulus to his ambition, she often 'crushed his spirit,' as his law partner put it. In the end, Lincoln may not have had as successful a presidency as he did—where he showed a preternatural ability to deal with difficult people—if he had not had so much practice at home.

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Title: [German] - Olaf Scholz: Der Weg zur Macht. Das Porträt

Author: Lars Haider

Narrator: Sebastian Dunkelberg

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 5 hours 47 minutes

Release date: December 20, 2021

Genres: Law & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

Der kürzeste Witz, der im Frühjahr 2021 im politischen Berlin erzählt wurde, ging so: 'Olaf Scholz wird Bundeskanzler.' Im Winter des Jahres wurde er es tatsächlich. Dies ist die Geschichte eines Politikers, der belächelt und als Scholzomat verspottet wurde, den die eigene Partei lange nicht geliebt hat und der trotzdem fest daran glaubte, eines Tages Bundeskanzler der Bundesrepublik Deutschland zu werden. Die Scholz-Story hat auch deshalb etwas Unglaubliches, weil 2021 alles genauso gekommen ist, wie Olaf Scholz es vorhergesagt hat – und zwar schon 2018 … Lars Haider, Jahrgang 1969, ist Journalist und Autor. Er war in verschiedenen Chefredaktionen bei deutschen Zeitungen tätig, bevor er im Juli 2011 Chefredakteur des Hamburger Abendblatts wurde. Aus dieser Zeit kennt er Olaf Scholz, den er wahrscheinlich so oft wie wenige andere Journalisten in Deutschland getroffen hat, und dem er immer zugetraut hat, eines Tages Bundeskanzler zu werden.

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Title: [Spanish] - Evo: Operación Rescate: Una trama geopolítica en 365 días

Author: Alfredo Serrano Mancilla

Narrator: Claudio Munda

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 43 minutes

Release date: December 20, 2021

Genres: Law & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

Una crónica que nos abre la puerta a la intimidad de los 365 días transcurridos desde la forzada renuncia de Evo Morales en noviembre de 2019 y su rescate clandestino hasta el regreso triunfante a su país en noviembre de 2020. Narrado con formidable suspenso y minucioso detalle, documentado con materiales inéditos y con prólogo de Alberto Fernández y del propio Evo. Esta es la crónica del año más peligroso en la vida de Evo Morales, desde su forzada renuncia en noviembre de 2019 después de ganar una vez más las elecciones presidenciales hasta el regreso triunfante a su país en noviembre de 2020, una trama oculta de relaciones entre gobiernos, organismos internacionales, medios de comunicación y personas comunes. Narrado con formidable suspenso y minucioso detalle por quien fue actor y testigo de los hechos, documentado con materiales inéditos y con prólogo de Alberto Fernández y del propio Evo, el libro revela cómo se urdió el golpe de Estado en Bolivia; la actitud de Mauricio Macri ante el pedido de apoyo humanitario; el rol de los gobiernos de Paraguay, Perú y Ecuador y del Grupo de Puebla; el rescate clandestino del depuesto presidente; sus días como refugiado en la capital de México; su asilo en la Argentina en el barrio porteño de Colegiales y el conurbano bonaerense, y su regreso luego de la victoria del MAS en las elecciones generales. Pero, sobre todo, ofrece una aproximación al Evo que muy pocos conocen, sus tácticas políticas, su afición futbolera, el dirigente de la calle aislado por la pandemia y la campaña electoral desde el exilio. 'Evo: Operación Rescate podría parecer un thriller de ficción -provoca el autor-. Sin embargo, todo lo que leerán es verdad'.

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Title: [German] - Meine Spielzüge: Aus der Kohlensiedlung zum erfolgreichsten Spielerberater Deutschlands

Author: Volker Struth

Narrator: Stefan Lehnen

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 30 minutes

Release date: December 17, 2021

Genres: Law & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

Spielerberater sind sagenumwobene Figuren des Profifußballs. Volker Struth ist einer von ihnen, und sein Leben ist eine Abenteuergeschichte mit märchenhaftem Ende: Aufgewachsen in der Arbeitersiedlung von Pulheim bei Köln, machte ihn sein Ideenreichtum zum erfolgreichen Unternehmer und zum größten Spielerberater Deutschlands. Nun gewährt er spannende Einblicke in die Betriebsgeheimnisse des Profifußballs: Wie er vom FC Bayern Millionen für Toni Kroos Wechsel zu Real Madrid raushandelte, wie er drei Tage vor dem WM-Finale 2014 dem Siegtorschützen Mut zusprach. Und welchen Preis er selbst für seine Arbeit zahlte. Ein Leben wie eine Achterbahnfahrt und ein Blick hinter die Kulissen von einem, der es wissen muss.

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Title: Better to Have Loved: The Life of Judith Merril

Author: Judith Merril, Emily Pohl-Weary

Narrator: Vanessa Warne

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 13 hours 6 minutes

Release date: December 15, 2021

Genres: Law & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

Judith Merril was a pioneer of twentieth-century science fiction, a prolific author, and editor. She was also a passionate social and political activist. In fact, her life was a constant adventure within the alternative and experimental worlds of science fiction, left politics, and Canadian literature. Better to Have Loved is illustrated with original art works, covers from classic science fiction magazines, period illustrations, and striking photography.

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Title: Unlikely Radicals: The Story of the Adams Mine Dump War

Author: Charlie Angus

Narrator: Geoffrey Pierpoint

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 30 minutes

Release date: December 15, 2021

Genres: Law & Politics

Publisher's Summary:

For twenty-two years politicians and businessmen pushed for the Adams Mine landfill as a solution to Ontario's garbage disposal crisis. This plan to dump millions of tonnes of waste into the fractured pits of the Adams Mine prompted five separate civil resistance campaigns by a rural region of 35,000 in Northern Ontario. Unlikely Radicals traces the compelling history of the First Nations people and farmers, environmentalists and miners, retirees and volunteers, Anglophones and Francophones who stood side by side to defend their community with mass demonstrations, blockades, and non-violent resistance.