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    The Bad Old Days (eBook, ePUB)
    The Bad Old Days: A Decade of Struggling for Justice in Louisiana is a combination of grassroots history and personal memoir. It recounts the author's experiences as a volunteer leader of the American Civil Liberties Union from 1966, when he founded an ACLU chapter in Baton Rouge, to 1977, when he ended his work as state legislative director. Through a series of "war stories," he details his struggles on multiple fronts, including racial justice, the rights of students, women and the mentally ill, and reform of criminal justice.By the time the author switched his focus to nuclear disarmament, the Old South, organized around the subordination, exploitation and humiliation of Black people, had been transformed into something more like the rest of the country. That momentous change required the efforts and sacrifices of countless people, most of whose names will never appear in the standard histories of those times.While the world depicted in these pages is still, unfortunately, recognizable, readers wondering whether there has been any real change in our country will find the book both eye-opening and encouraging.
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    Anarchist, Republican...Assassin: A Political Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 369min
    COVID-19 is spreading across the country. Peaceful demonstrations for Black Lives Matter after the murder by cop of George Floyd have turned violent. President Trump’s handling of the pandemic seems incompetent and chaotic. Infections and deaths continue to rise. When Attorney General Barr orders riot police and troops to clear peaceful protesters from Lafayette Square for Trump’s photo-op with a Bible, something snaps in Jack Blair. After a psychotic episode he is thrown into prison, and his life is threatened by white nationalist boogaloo bois.Yet, amid the fear of the virus, police brutality, and riots, there is a love story. Sherry Clemens, an industrial heiress, and Jack Blair, a militant anarchist, fall in love. Will he forsake the revolution for her? What does she know about his covert revolutionary activities? How can her conservative Republican family accept him?The love story and the crazy politics of our time intertwine and clash. Gloria Hughes, a young idealistic ACLU attorney, needs to untangle the mess and free Jack Blair. The Trump Administration is determined to stop her. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jon Mitchell. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/216986/bk_acx0_216986_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Re-Imagine! Business Excellence in a Disruptive Age, Hörbuch, Digital, 47min
    Tom Peters, a self-described "professional loudmouth" who has been compared to Emerson, Whitman, Thoreau, and H. L. Mencken, declares war on the worthless rules and absurd organizational barriers that stand in the way of creativity and success. In a totally outrageous, in-your-face presentation, Tom reveals: A re-imagining of American business Two big markets - underserved and worth trillions! The top qualities of leadership excellence Why passion, talent, and action must rule business today. His unconventional views led Business Week to describe Tom Peters as "business' best friend and worst nightmare". Tom describes himself as a prince of disorder, champion of bold failures, maestro of zest, professional loudmouth, corporate cheerleader, lover of markets, capitalist pig, and card-carrying member of the ACLU. His most recent bestseller, Re-imagine! Business Excellence in a Disruptive Age, was named one of the top 10 business and investing books of 2003 by Amazon.com and was praised by The Washington Post as "passionate, egotistical, evangelical, outrageous, and maddeningly simplistic - but always provocative and fun". Language: English. Narrator: Tom Peters. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/sp/blif/000023/sp_blif_000023_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    A Brief Chapter in My Impossible Life , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 330min
    Simone has always felt different, though her life seems pretty normal. Her mom's a lawyer for the ACLU, so she's grown up spending her Saturdays outside the food co-op, gathering signatures for worthy causes. Her dad's a political cartoonist who does most of the work around the house. Her little brother is a jock who seems to know how to do everything just right. Her best friend has a new boyfriend, and Simone has a crush on a really smart and funny guy who spends all his time with another girl. But what really makes Simone different is that she doesn't resemble anyone in her family. She's adopted. She's always known it, and she's happy with her family just as it is, thank you. Then one day, Rivka calls, and Simone learns who her mother was, a 16-year-old, just like Simone. Who is Rivka? What does she want? Why is she calling now, after all these years? The answers lead Simone to deeper feelings of anguish and love than she has ever known and prompt her to question everything she has taken for granted about faith, life, the afterlife, and what it means to be a daughter. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mandy Siegfried. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/lili/000322/bk_lili_000322_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Madison's Music: On Reading the First Amendment , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 551min
    Are you sitting down? It turns out that everything you learned about the First Amendment is wrong. For too long, we've been treating small, isolated snippets of the text as infallible gospel without looking at the masterpiece of the whole. Legal luminary Burt Neuborne argues that the structure of the First Amendment as well as of the entire Bill of Rights was more intentional than most people realize, beginning with the internal freedom of conscience and working outward to freedom of expression and finally freedom of public association. This design, Neuborne argues, was not to protect discrete individual rights - such as the rights of corporations to spend unlimited amounts of money to influence elections - but to guarantee that the process of democracy continues without disenfranchisement, oppression, or injustice. Neuborne, who was the legal director of the ACLU and has argued numerous cases before the Supreme Court, invites us to hear the music within the form and content of Madison's carefully formulated text. When we hear Madison's music, a democratic ideal flowers in front of us, and we can see that the First Amendment gives us the tools to fight for campaign finance reform, the right to vote, equal rights in the military, the right to be full citizens, and the right to prevent corporations from riding roughshod over the weakest among us. Neuborne gives us an eloquent lesson in democracy that informs and inspires. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David Rapkin. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/021757/bk_adbl_021757_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    What I Believe , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 223min
    Tariq Ramadan is very much a public figure, named one of Time magazine's most important innovators of the 21st century. He is among the leading Islamic thinkers in the West, with a large following around the world. But he has also been a lightning rod for controversy. Indeed, in 2004, Ramadan was prevented from entering the U.S. by the Bush administration and despite two appeals, supported by organizations like the American Academy of Religion and the ACLU, he was barred from the country until spring of 2010, when Secretary of State Hillary Clinton finally lifted the ban. In What I Believe, Ramadan attempts to set the record straight, laying out the basic ideas he stands for in clear and accessible prose. He describes the book as a work of clarification, directed at ordinary citizens, politicians, journalists, and others who are curious (or skeptical) about his positions. Aware that that he is dealing with emotional issues, Ramadan tries to get past the barriers of prejudice and misunderstanding to speak directly, from the heart, to his Muslim and non-Muslim readers alike. In particular, he calls on Western Muslims to escape the mental, social, cultural, and religious ghettos they have created for themselves and become full partners in the democratic societies in which they live. At the same time, he calls for the rest of us to recognize our Muslim neighbors as citizens with rights and responsibilities the same as ours. His vision is of a future in which a shared and confident pluralism becomes a reality at last. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mark Boyett. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/019802/bk_adbl_019802_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Courthouse Cowboys: A Modern Tale of Murder in Montana (Thriller) (Defalco Law) , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 613min
    Murder dogs Jack and Paige Defalco from their days as California prosecutors to their newfound careers as Montana defense attorneys. Never mind that they've uprooted their kids, caravanned 2,000 miles to the hinterlands of Kootenai County, kissed goodbye to their fat salaries, or vowed to avoid homicide. At Deer Lodge State Prison in 1999, murder sits before Paige in the guise of a skeletal, bloody-lipped, broken-nosed teenager who grins out one side of his mouth as he stares at her through a swollen eye. Evidently his fellow criminals brook no mercy for a convicted killer, regardless of his age or feeble intelligence. This kid's parents have no money and the local legal eagles have warned Paige to let the conviction stand…or else. Yet that threat, a gauntlet thrown down, fuels her addiction to criminal law. It makes her flip the bird at those in authority and go to trial anyway. So, as she returns the kid's stare, her nod conveys her agreement to defend mentally disabled Ben Stagg. Is it coincidence that soon thereafter anonymous callers threaten her? That the local media excoriates her? That the State Bar investigates both Defalcos? Is Paige crazy to rat out the corrupt criminal justice system to the ACLU and the Montana Supreme Court? Is she foolhardy to challenge the powerful judges, lawyers, and cops who comprise the Courthouse Cowboys? And with the discovery that Ben Stagg suffers from Klinefelter's syndrome, a common but rarely diagnosed genetic disorder, will a jury acquit him of murder when presented with a never-before-used insanity defense? This legal thriller rocks the listener with suspense, gallows humor, and a finale filled with redemption. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: P.A. Moore. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/012260/bk_acx0_012260_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Culture Warrior , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 361min
    Bill O'Reilly is the very embodiment of the idea of a Culture Warrior, and in this book he lives up to the title brilliantly, with all the brashness and forthrightness at his command. He sees that America is in the midst of a fierce culture war between those who embrace traditional values and those who want to change America into a "secular-progressive" country. This is a conflict that differs in many ways from the usual liberal/conservative divide, but it is no less heated, and the stakes are even higher. In Culture Warrior, Bill O'Reilly defines this war and analyzes the competing philosophies of the traditionalist and secular-progressive camps. He examines why the nation's motto, E pluribus unum ("From many, one"), might change to "What about me?"; dissects the forces driving the secular-progressive agenda in the media and behind the scenes, including George Soros, George Lakoff, and the ACLU; and dives into matters of race, education, and the war on terror. He also shows how the culture war has played out in such high-profile instances as The Passion of the Christ, Fahrenheit 9/11, the abuse epidemic (child and otherwise), and the embattled place of religion in public life, with special emphasis on the "war against Christmas". Whatever controversies are roiling the nation, he fearlessly confronts them, and no one will be in the dark about which side he's on. Culture Warrior showcases Bill O'Reilly at his most eloquent and impassioned. He is an unrelenting fighter for the soul of America, and in this book he fights the good fight for the traditional values that have served this country so well for so long. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Bill O'Reilly. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/000920/bk_rand_000920_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Rbg A to Z: The Life of an Icon from ACLU to Gen Z
    • Beautifully illustrated, this book is not only well-researched but also gorgeous to flip, making it perfect as for the gift trade. • RBG continues to live on as a cultural icon with a legacy that's celebrated internationally. • Another title in the A to Z Icons series - following from Bowie A to Z, Prince A to Z, Grace Jones A to Z, The Beatles A-Z, and Frida A to Z. • The book is well-researched, with hundreds of verifiable facts, so will appeal to those who already think they know a lot about RBG, as well as those new to her life and legacy. • The book will be published right after international women's month, providing great opportunities for publicity.
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    37 Words: Title IX and Fifty Years of Fighting Sex Discrimination
    Anniversary of Title IX: 37 Words will be published in June 2022, the fiftieth anniversary of the passage of Title IX. Author's Sales Track: Boschert's book on plug-in cars has sold over 11,000 copies. First Definitive History: Tells the story for the first time of the legislation itself and the fifty years of regulation about the legislation that followed. Platform: Boschert served as the San Francisco Bureau Chief for Frontline Medical News, and has contributed hundreds or articles to the New York Times, USA Today, the Los Angeles Times, Reuters and elsewhere. She has been featured on a syndicated PBS-TV special, a KQED-TVNPR special, Science Friday, and CNET online, and has spoken at Google headquarters, the Commonwealth Club, and universities. Blurbs: Blurbs are likely from Marcia Greenberger (Founder and co-president emerita of the National Women's Law Center and a National Women's Hall of Fame inductee), Pamela Price (Civil rights attorney and plaintiff in Alexander v. Yale), Helen Zia (Author and former executive editor, Ms. Magazine), and others. News Hooks: In addition to the anniversary, Title IX is regularly in the media whether over dustups like the NCAA tournaments and the women's weight room in 2021 or activism about equity in campus sports. Author is poised to write op-eds and promote the book aggressively through partnerships with local and national organizations. Partnership organizations: Organizations including the National Women's Law Center (Washington, DC), Equal Rights Advocates (San Francisco), Know Your IX (Washington, DC), Women's Sports Foundation (New York), American Association of University Women (Washington, DC), Human Rights Campaign (Washington, DC), and the ACLU (New York) will all help promote.
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