Bestsellers
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Framed
- Astonishing True Stories of Wrongful Convictions
- By: John Grisham, Jim McCloskey
- Narrated by: Michael Beck, John Grisham, Jim McCloskey
- Length: 13 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,124
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Performance1,017
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Story1,017
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In John Grisham’s first work of nonfiction since The Innocent Man, “the master of the legal thriller” (Associated Press) teams up with Jim McCloskey, “the godfather of the innocence movement” (Texas Monthly), to share ten harrowing true stories of...
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Believable but unbelievable
- By kimberly on 10-20-24
By: John Grisham, and others
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The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956
- An Experiment in Literary Investigation
- By: Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
- Narrated by: Ignat Solzhenitsyn
- Length: 21 hrs and 53 mins
- Abridged
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Overall3,358
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Performance2,913
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Story2,901
“BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY.” —Time “It is impossible to name a book that had a greater effect on the political and moral consciousness of the late twentieth century.” —David Remnick, The New Yorker The Nobel Prize winner’s towering masterpiece of world literature...
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Mandatory reading in Russia, not USA. Why?
- By Arlon James on 11-07-20
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The Sun Does Shine
- By: Anthony Ray Hinton, Lara Love Hardin, Bryan Stevenson - foreword
- Narrated by: Bryan Stevenson - foreword, Kevin R. Free
- Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall7,916
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Performance7,178
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Story7,151
Oprah's Book Club Summer 2018 Selection A powerful, revealing story of hope, love, justice, and the power of reading by a man who spent 30 years on death row for a crime he didn't commit. “An amazing and heartwarming story, it restores our faith in the inherent goodness of humanity.”...
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DOWN WITH CAPITAL PUNISHMENT!!!
- By MUDDBONE on 04-29-18
By: Anthony Ray Hinton, and others
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The Innocent Man
- Murder and Injustice in a Small Town
- By: John Grisham
- Narrated by: Craig Wasson
- Length: 12 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4,109
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Performance3,126
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Story3,126
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LOOK FOR THE NETFLIX ORIGINAL DOCUMENTARY SERIES “Both an American tragedy and [Grisham’s] strongest legal thriller yet, all the more gripping because it happens to be true.”—Entertainment Weekly John Grisham’s first work of nonfiction: a true crime...
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Wake up people...
- By Michael H. Wagner on 10-14-09
By: John Grisham
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The Gulag Archipelago Volume 2
- An Experiment in Literary Investigation
- By: Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
- Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
- Length: 27 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall474
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Performance413
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Story411
“BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY.” —Time Volume 2 of the Nobel Prize-winner’s towering masterpiece: the story of Solzhenitsyn's entrance into the Soviet prison camps, where he would remain for nearly a decade. Features a new foreword by Anne Applebaum. “The greatest and most...
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I wish Jordan B. Peterson could have narrated
- By Lukas Kubik on 11-17-20
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Escape from Camp 14
- One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West
- By: Blaine Harden
- Narrated by: Blaine Harden
- Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall87
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Performance86
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Story86
A New York Times bestseller, the shocking story of one of the few people born in a North Korean political prison to have escaped and survived. Blaine Harden's latest book, King of Spies, will be available from Viking in Fall 2017. North Korea is isolated and hungry, bankrupt and belligerent. It...
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A harrowing tale of escaping the clutches of one of the most brutal political prisons in the modern world.
- By Anonymous on 04-22-26
By: Blaine Harden
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Framed
- Astonishing True Stories of Wrongful Convictions
- By: John Grisham, Jim McCloskey
- Narrated by: Michael Beck, John Grisham, Jim McCloskey
- Length: 13 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,124
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Performance1,017
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Story1,017
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In John Grisham’s first work of nonfiction since The Innocent Man, “the master of the legal thriller” (Associated Press) teams up with Jim McCloskey, “the godfather of the innocence movement” (Texas Monthly), to share ten harrowing true stories of...
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Believable but unbelievable
- By kimberly on 10-20-24
By: John Grisham, and others
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The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956
- An Experiment in Literary Investigation
- By: Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
- Narrated by: Ignat Solzhenitsyn
- Length: 21 hrs and 53 mins
- Abridged
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Overall3,358
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Performance2,913
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Story2,901
“BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY.” —Time “It is impossible to name a book that had a greater effect on the political and moral consciousness of the late twentieth century.” —David Remnick, The New Yorker The Nobel Prize winner’s towering masterpiece of world literature...
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Mandatory reading in Russia, not USA. Why?
- By Arlon James on 11-07-20
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The Sun Does Shine
- By: Anthony Ray Hinton, Lara Love Hardin, Bryan Stevenson - foreword
- Narrated by: Bryan Stevenson - foreword, Kevin R. Free
- Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall7,916
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Performance7,178
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Story7,151
Oprah's Book Club Summer 2018 Selection A powerful, revealing story of hope, love, justice, and the power of reading by a man who spent 30 years on death row for a crime he didn't commit. “An amazing and heartwarming story, it restores our faith in the inherent goodness of humanity.”...
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DOWN WITH CAPITAL PUNISHMENT!!!
- By MUDDBONE on 04-29-18
By: Anthony Ray Hinton, and others
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The Innocent Man
- Murder and Injustice in a Small Town
- By: John Grisham
- Narrated by: Craig Wasson
- Length: 12 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4,109
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Performance3,126
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Story3,126
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LOOK FOR THE NETFLIX ORIGINAL DOCUMENTARY SERIES “Both an American tragedy and [Grisham’s] strongest legal thriller yet, all the more gripping because it happens to be true.”—Entertainment Weekly John Grisham’s first work of nonfiction: a true crime...
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Wake up people...
- By Michael H. Wagner on 10-14-09
By: John Grisham
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The Gulag Archipelago Volume 2
- An Experiment in Literary Investigation
- By: Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
- Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
- Length: 27 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall474
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Performance413
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Story411
“BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY.” —Time Volume 2 of the Nobel Prize-winner’s towering masterpiece: the story of Solzhenitsyn's entrance into the Soviet prison camps, where he would remain for nearly a decade. Features a new foreword by Anne Applebaum. “The greatest and most...
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I wish Jordan B. Peterson could have narrated
- By Lukas Kubik on 11-17-20
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Escape from Camp 14
- One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West
- By: Blaine Harden
- Narrated by: Blaine Harden
- Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall87
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Performance86
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Story86
A New York Times bestseller, the shocking story of one of the few people born in a North Korean political prison to have escaped and survived. Blaine Harden's latest book, King of Spies, will be available from Viking in Fall 2017. North Korea is isolated and hungry, bankrupt and belligerent. It...
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A harrowing tale of escaping the clutches of one of the most brutal political prisons in the modern world.
- By Anonymous on 04-22-26
By: Blaine Harden
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The Faithful Executioner
- Life and Death, Honor and Shame in the Turbulent Sixteenth Century
- By: Joel F. Harrington
- Narrated by: James Gillies
- Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall839
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Performance760
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Story754
In The Faithful Executioner, Harrington vividly re-creates a life filled with stark contrasts, from the young apprentice's rigorous training under his executioner father....
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Excellent
- By James on 03-30-18
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Orange Is the New Black
- My Year in a Women's Prison
- By: Piper Kerman
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall504
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Performance438
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Story434
NOW A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER With a career, a boyfriend, and a loving family, Piper Kerman barely resembles the reckless young woman who delivered a suitcase of drug money ten years before. But that past has caught up with her. Convicted and sentenced to...
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The show is better
- By Carlie on 02-06-20
By: Piper Kerman
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Prisoners of the Castle
- An Epic Story of Survival and Escape from Colditz, the Nazis' Fortress Prison
- By: Ben Macintyre
- Narrated by: Ben Macintyre
- Length: 13 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall488
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Performance414
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Story415
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The “entertaining [and] often-moving account” (The Wall Street Journal) of the remarkable POWs whose relentlessly creative attempts to escape a notorious Nazi prison embodied the spirit of resistance against fascism, from the author of The Spy and the Traitor...
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Another chapter of history brought to life by a master
- By Steve on 09-28-22
By: Ben Macintyre
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The Catalpa Rescue
- The gripping story of the most dramatic and successful prison break in Australian history
- By: Peter FitzSimons
- Narrated by: Michael Carman
- Length: 16 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall151
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Performance132
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Story132
The incredible true story of one of the most extraordinary and inspirational prison breaks in Australian history. New York, 1874. Members of the Clan-na-Gael - agitators for Irish freedom from the English yoke - hatch a daring plan to free six Irish political prisoners from the most remote...
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Terrific yarn
- By Garrett on 05-13-19
By: Peter FitzSimons
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Captive in Iran
- A Remarkable True Story of Hope and Triumph amid the Horror of Tehran's Brutal Evin Prison
- By: Maryam Rostampour, Marziyeh Amirizadeh, John Perry
- Narrated by: Patty Fogarty
- Length: 10 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall521
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Performance466
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Story463
In Captive in Iran, Maryam and Marziyeh recount their 259 days in Evin. It’s an amazing story of unyielding faith - when denying God would have meant freedom....
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Sorry, but
- By E. A. Boyce on 09-06-15
By: Maryam Rostampour, and others
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Writing My Wrongs
- Life, Death, and One Man's Story of Redemption in an American Prison
- By: Shaka Senghor
- Narrated by: Shaka Senghor
- Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall968
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Performance879
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Story876
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An “extraordinary, unforgettable” (Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow) memoir of redemption and second chances amidst America’s mass incarceration epidemic, from a member of Oprah’s SuperSoul 100 Shaka Senghor was raised in a middle-class...
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My Inspiration
- By Max on 03-15-16
By: Shaka Senghor
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Marching Powder
- A True Story of Friendship, Cocaine, and South America's Strangest Jail
- By: Thomas McFadden, Rusty Young
- Narrated by: Adrian Mulraney, Rusty Young
- Length: 14 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2
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Performance2
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Story2
A shocking exposé of life inside Bolivia's infamous San Pedro Prison, uncovered by an intrepid young backpacker turned accidental inmate.
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Just WOW!
- By Holland on 04-05-26
By: Thomas McFadden, and others
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The Price of Mercy
- Unfair Trials, a Violent System, and a Public Defender's Search for Justice in America
- By: Emily Galvin Almanza
- Narrated by: Emily Galvin Almanza
- Length: 11 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall6
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Performance6
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Story6
A former public defender takes us behind the closed doors of America's criminal courts, revealing how the institutions that claim to protect us are doing the exact opposite—and offering a blueprint for finally fixing it. “A searing, compassionate, and utterly necessary book that pulls back...
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Suspicion Becomes Reality
- By Joshua C. on 02-23-26
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The Tragedy of True Crime
- Four Guilty Men and the Stories That Define Us
- By: John J. Lennon
- Narrated by: Will Damron
- Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall35
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Performance31
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Story31
In 2001, John J. Lennon killed a man on a Brooklyn Street. Now he’s a journalist, working from behind bars, trying to make sense of it all. The Tragedy of True Crime is a first-person journalistic account of the lives of four men who have killed, written by a man who has killed. Lennon entered...
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Excellent!
- By Susan G on 10-08-25
By: John J. Lennon
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Blood in the Water
- The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy
- By: Heather Ann Thompson
- Narrated by: Erin Bennett
- Length: 22 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall711
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Performance632
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Story633
On September 9, 1971, nearly 1,300 prisoners took over the Attica Correctional Facility in upstate New York to protest years of mistreatment....
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Tragic Events, Well-Told
- By David on 10-27-17
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American Prison
- A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment
- By: Shane Bauer
- Narrated by: James Fouhey, Shane Bauer
- Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,066
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Performance951
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Story949
An enraging, necessary look at the private prison system, and a convincing clarion call for prison reform.” —NPR.org New York Times Book Review 10 Best Books of 2018 * One of President Barack Obama’s favorite books of 2018 * Winner of the 2019 J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize * Winner of the...
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Disgusting
- By Frank on 09-23-18
By: Shane Bauer
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Newjack
- Guarding Sing Sing
- By: Ted Conover
- Narrated by: Ted Conover
- Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall499
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Performance369
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Story370
Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing is the story of Ted Conover's rookie year as a guard at Sing Sing....
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THE BEST BOOK ON PRISON LIFE I HAVE EVER READ!!!
- By Steve on 06-27-09
By: Ted Conover
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The Little School
- Tales of Disappearance and Survival in Argentina
- By: Alicia Partnoy
- Narrated by: Yazmin Venegas
- Length: 3 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall26
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Performance23
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Story23
One of Argentina's 30,000 "disappeared", Alicia Partnoy was abducted from her home by secret police and taken to a concentration camp where she was tortured....
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Highly annoying accent -- gave up after 20 minutes
- By Preston on 01-02-16
By: Alicia Partnoy
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Mandela
- My Prisoner, My Friend
- By: Christo Brand
- Narrated by: Rupert Degas
- Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall26
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Performance24
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Story24
Christo Brand was an 18-year-old recruit to the South African prison service when he was sent to work at the Robben Island prison......
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great book. intense and highly emotional
- By Anonymous on 09-15-19
By: Christo Brand
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We Do This ‘Til We Free Us
- Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice
- By: Mariame Kaba
- Narrated by: Diana Blue
- Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall114
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Performance100
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Story100
"Organizing is both science and art. It is thinking through a vision, a strategy, and then figuring out who your targets are, always being concerned about power, always being concerned about how you're going to actually build power in order to be able to push your issues, in order to be able to...
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content is great, but audiobook is unlistenable
- By A. Customer on 03-22-22
By: Mariame Kaba
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Solitary
- Unbroken by four decades in solitary confinement. My story of transformation and hope.
- By: Albert Woodfox
- Narrated by: JD Jackson
- Length: 16 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall589
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Performance526
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Story518
Solitary is the unforgettable life story of a man who served more than four decades in solitary confinement - in a six-foot by nine-foot cell, 23 hours a day, in notorious Angola prison in Louisiana - all for a crime he did not commit....
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An eye opener!
- By Ellen Gilmartin on 05-25-19
By: Albert Woodfox
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The Sing Sing Files
- One Journalist, Six Innocent Men, and a Twenty-Year Fight for Justice
- By: Dan Slepian
- Narrated by: Dan Slepian
- Length: 6 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall150
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Performance142
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Story142
“Bristling with urgency, empathy, and determination…this is investigative journalism at its best and most necessary.”—AudioFile The author's podcast, Letters from Sing Sing, was a Pulitzer Prize finalist. This program is read by the author and features sound design and original archival...
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Extra extraordinary and captivating Read!
- By Nicole on 09-19-24
By: Dan Slepian
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Corrections in Ink
- A Memoir
- By: Keri Blakinger
- Narrated by: Keri Blakinger
- Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall259
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Performance222
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Story222
An electric and unforgettable memoir about a young woman's journey—from the ice rink, to addiction and a prison sentence, to the newsroom—and how she emerged with a fierce determination to expose the broken system she experienced. Keri Blakinger always lived life at full throttle. Growing up...
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Brutal honesty, great listen
- By Enzo G. on 06-12-22
By: Keri Blakinger
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Are Prisons Obsolete?
- By: Angela Y. Davis
- Narrated by: Angela Y. Davis
- Length: 4 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall172
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Performance148
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Story148
With her characteristic brilliance, grace, and radical audacity, Angela Y. Davis has put the case for the latest abolition movement in American life: the abolition of the prison. She argues forthrightly for "decarceration," and argues for the transformation of the society as a whole....
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Buying the paperback now too
- By Theresa Frey on 03-14-23
By: Angela Y. Davis
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Conquer the Probation Officer Exam in Under 90 Minutes: Study Guide for Criminal Justice, Case Management, Rehabilitation Concepts, Community Supervision, Law, and Correctional Practice
- By: Philip Martin McCaulay
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 1 hr and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall0
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Performance0
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Story0
Conquer the Probation Officer Exam in Under 90 Minutes is a focused, audiobook-friendly guide for those pursuing a career in probation and ...
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A Prison Diary Volume I
- Hell
- By: Jeffrey Archer
- Narrated by: Andrew Sachs
- Length: 5 hrs and 32 mins
- Abridged
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Overall59
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Performance28
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Story27
The sun is shining through the bars of my window on what must be a glorious summer day. I've been incarcerated in a cell five paces by three for twelve and a half hours, and will not be let out again until midday; eighteen and a half hours of solitary confinement. There is a child of seventeen...
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Well worth the listen
- By Alan T Alcock on 04-14-09
By: Jeffrey Archer
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The Loop
- By: Ben Oliver
- Narrated by: Julian Elfer
- Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall79
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Performance64
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Story64
Life inside The Loop - the futuristic death row for teens under 18 - is one long repetitive purgatory. But when news of the encroaching chaos in the outside world reaches the inmates and disorder begins to strike, the prison becomes the least of their worries. Perfect for fans of The Fifth Wave...
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Very thought provoking.
- By Hayden Embry on 11-18-25
By: Ben Oliver
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Inside Alcatraz
- The bestselling true story of life inside America's most notorious prison
- By: Jim Quillen
- Narrated by: Jeff Harding
- Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall130
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Performance116
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Story116
Each day we saw the outside world in all its splendour, and each day that view served as a reminder that we had wasted and ruined our lives. Jim Quillen, AZ586 - a runaway, problem child and petty thief - was jailed several times before his twentieth birthday. In August 1942, after escaping from...
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A Cautionary Tale of a Life Misspent
- By Rob S. on 03-16-17
By: Jim Quillen
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City of Inmates
- Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles, 1771-1965
- By: Kelly Lytle Hernández
- Narrated by: Lisa Reneé Pitts
- Length: 12 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall23
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Performance12
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Story13
City of Inmates explains how the City of Angels became the capital city of the world's leading incarcerator. Marshaling more than two centuries of evidence, historian Kelly Lytle Hernandez unmasks how histories of native elimination, immigrant exclusion, and Black disappearance drove the rise of...
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Great content
- By A. Gutierrez on 09-26-22