D.B. Cooper, The Man Who Got Away - Steven J. Pickering

What Your Comfort Costs Us: How Women of Color Reimagine Leadership to Transform Workplace Culture - M. Gabriela Alcalde

Listen to this audiobook in full for free on https://epod.space [https://epod.space] Title: What Your Comfort Costs Us: How Women of Color Reimagine Leadership to Transform Workplace Culture Author: M. Gabriela Alcalde Narrator: A'rese Emokpae Format: Unabridged Length: 8:09:46 Language: English Release date: 09-30-2025 Publisher: Random House (Audio) Genres: Business & Economics, Non-Fiction, Management & Leadership, Social Science Summary: Leading for survival, leading for liberation—how to uplift women of color, transform cultures of complicity, and upend white supremacy culture at work Workplace leaders: white comfort comes at the safety of women of color—and it costs lives and livelihoods. Microaggressions, structural barriers, unpaid emotional labor: WOC in leadership disproportionately bear the burdens of white supremacist work cultures, even as they’re expected to take charge of reforms. But building better workplaces—less toxic, racist, and misogynistic workplaces—is everyone’s responsibility and for everyone’s benefit. And letting it fall solely to women of color is causing real harm. The stakes are high, and it’s past time for change. What Your Comfort Costs Us offers essential reading and transparent advice for leaders who are ready to address structural inequity at work. With chapters like “Talking About Racism is Hard,” “Checking the Boxes,” and “Uncovering the Added Burden and Toll of Unpaid and Unseen Emotional Labor,” anti-supremacist philanthropic and nonprofit leader and author M. Gabriela Alcalde challenges us to rethink how we engage power—and take radical action toward reorienting it toward collective liberation.  You’ll learn: - Research-backed analysis and practical solutions to transform workplace culture - How systemic racism and structural violence shows up at work (in ways you may not expect) - What happens when workplaces shift to prioritizing WOC’s material safety over white comfort - Real stories and insights from 10 women of color in leadership - How white allies and accomplices can show up and step up authentically Interwoven with Alcalde’s own experiences, professional expertise, and proven recommendations on how to do better, this book is a necessary guide to nurturing empathy, challenging complacency, and activating meaningful allyship. Alcalde awakens your potential to transform workplace cultures beyond business-as-usual bandaids, offering critical wisdom for systemic change and authentic collective empowerment at work.

Radical Relating: A Queer and Polyamory-Informed Guide to Love Beyond the Myth of Monogamy - Mel Cassidy

Listen to this audiobook in full for free on https://epod.space [https://epod.space] Title: Radical Relating: A Queer and Polyamory-Informed Guide to Love Beyond the Myth of Monogamy Author: Mel Cassidy Narrator: Mel Cassidy Format: Unabridged Length: 13:48:33 Language: English Release date: 09-16-2025 Publisher: Random House (Audio) Genres: Non-Fiction, Health & Wellness, Marriage & Family, Social Science Summary: A provocative, trauma-informed guide to post-monogamy—how to build liberated relationships rooted in empowerment, equity, and authenticity With practical somatic exercises, reflection prompts and a relational toolkit—also includes a glossary of polyamory, non-monogamy, and alternative relationship terms This book is for polyamorists who want to practice their non-monogamy with more feminism, more queerness, and more community building. It’s for monogamists who don’t want to do relationships on autopilot. It’s for everyone who dearly believes a better way to love and live exists. It’s for change makers who aspire to re-wild the ways we love. An empowering guide to imagining (and living) better relationships, Radical Relating pushes back on the monogamy mandate. Author, somatic educator, and relationship coach Mel Cassidy explodes the often-unquestioned mainstream myths about the nuclear family structure: those that tell us your soulmate must be your sole mate. That sex is the only yardstick of relational success. That self-sacrifice and self-denial are necessary trade-offs for security and partnership. That we need to ride the relationship escalator all the way up, or we’ll die alone. In four sections, Cassidy explains the why, what, how, and where of the Radical Relating model. They: - Lay out clear-eyed analysis about why monogamy isn’t working and explain the harms of unquestioned internalized mono-normativity - Offer Reflective Journaling prompts, Somatic Pauses, and practical wisdom for assembling your Relational Toolkit - Explain the trauma-informed pillars of Radical Relating: Orientation, Resilience, Resolution, and Engagement - Help you reorient to a new map for relating that’s queer, anarchist, and somatically integrated - Help you build skills to understand and navigate your relationship landscape - Explore the intersections of monogamy, colonialism, patriarchy, and capitalism and illuminate how monogamous relationship structures emerged with one goal in mind: to consolidate capital Most books on non-monogamy focus on top-level logistics and play into beliefs that can inadvertently replicate oppressive structures. Radical Relating is different: it speaks to readers who want not only to open up their relationships or expand their sexual experiences, but claim a new and liberating ways to relate to each other, fulfill our authentic needs, and build true communities of care beyond monogamy.

Transmigration of Timothy Archer - Philip K. Dick

Listen to this audiobook in full for free on https://epod.space [https://epod.space] Title: Transmigration of Timothy Archer Author: Philip K. Dick Narrator: Alyssa Bresnahan Format: Unabridged Length: 9:42:24 Language: English Release date: 09-16-2025 Publisher: Recorded Books Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy Summary: From Philip K. Dick, the Hugo Award–winning author of The Man in the High Castle and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?—the basis for the film Blade Runner—comes The Transmigration of Timothy Archer, the conclusion of the VALIS trilogy, bringing the author’s search for the identity and nature of God to a close.    The novel follows Bishop Timothy Archer as he travels to Israel, ostensibly to examine ancient scrolls bearing the words of Christ. But more importantly, this leads him to examine the decisions he made during his life and how they may have contributed to the suicides of his mistress and son.    This introspective book is one of Dick’s most philosophical and literary, delving into the mysteries of religion and of faith itself. As one of Dick’s final works, it also provides unique insight into the mind of a genius, whose work was still in the process of maturing at the time of his death.

D.B. Cooper, The Man Who Got Away - Steven J. Pickering

Listen to this audiobook in full for free on https://epod.space [https://epod.space] Title: D.B. Cooper, The Man Who Got Away Author: Steven J. Pickering Narrator: Robert Bell Jones Format: Unabridged Length: 0:38:00 Language: English Release date: 09-12-2025 Publisher: Listen & Live Audio Genres: Non-Fiction, True Crime, Mystery, Thriller & Horror Summary: "The wind was a living thing. It tore at his clothes, roared in his ears, clawed at the edges of his resolve. The aluminum skin of the Boeing 727 thrummed beneath his feet, the open airstair rattling in the cold November night..." What began as one man's audacious airline hijacking, extortion and theft of $200,000 in ransom money, and subsequent escape and disappearance, transformed over the years and decades from a simple criminal act into a tale of myth and folklore--making the name, D.B. Cooper, an true American legend.

Jury of His Peers - Debbie Macomber

Listen to this audiobook in full for free on https://epod.space [https://epod.space] Title: Jury of His Peers Author: Debbie Macomber Narrator: Susan Bennett Format: Unabridged Length: 5:23:23 Language: English Release date: 08-26-2025 Publisher: Recorded Books Genres: Fiction & Literature, Contemporary Women, Sagas Summary: Two childhood rivals reconnect during jury duty—and are forced to navigate their complex feelings for one another—in this heartwarming novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber.   Caroline Lomax is eager to exercise her civic duty and report for jury duty. However, when she sees a familiar face on her first day, she is near certain that she has come face to face with Ted Thomasson, the thorn in her side throughout high school—and the last person she’d want as a fellow juror.   Ted still seems to relish in making Caroline squirm, but he shocks Caroline when he declares that he’s always harbored feelings for her. Just as she attempts to make sense of it all, they’re both selected for the same case … and as things intensify in and out of the courtroom, it becomes clear that Caroline has an enormous decision to make.