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A Garbageman's Story

by Simon Paré-Poupart ...

Narrated by Jean Brassard ...

Unabridged

3 hours 10 min

A Montreal garbageman’s sharp and funny memoir/exposé, in which he attempts to convince people to “stop imagining that your garbage magically disappears”This fascinating no-bullshit account of twenty years in waste management paints a vivid portrait of the heroic labor, anarchic spirit, and violent conditions of the people who keep our cities clean.Paré-Poupart’s story is atypical: he started ... Read more

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A Montreal garbageman’s sharp and funny memoir/exposé, in which he attempts to convince people to “stop imagining that your garbage magically disappears”This fascinating no-bullshit account of twenty years in waste management paints a vivid portrait of the heroic labor, anarchic spirit, and violent conditions of the people who keep our cities clean.Paré-Poupart’s story is atypical: he started
... Read more
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The Devil in the White City

Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America

by Erik Larson ...

Narrated by Scott Brick ...

Unabridged

15 hours

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The true tale of the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago and the cunning serial killer who used the magic and majesty of the fair to lure his victims to their death.A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the CenturyTwo men, each handsome and unusually adept at his chosen work, embodied an element of the great dynamic that characterized America’s rush toward the twentieth ... Read more

$25.00 USD

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The true tale of the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago and the cunning serial killer who used the magic and majesty of the fair to lure his victims to their death.A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the CenturyTwo men, each handsome and unusually adept at his chosen work, embodied an element of the great dynamic that characterized America’s rush toward the twentieth
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Evicted

Poverty and Profit in the American City

by Matthew Desmond ...

Narrated by Dion Graham ...

Unabridged

11 hours 3 min

**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • ONE OF TIME’S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE • ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES’S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY • A KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE CENTURY • AN OPRAH DAILY BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE PAST TWO DECADESOne of the most acclaimed books of our time, this modern classic “has set a new standard for reporting ... Read more

$25.99 USD

**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • ONE OF TIME’S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE • ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES’S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY • A KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE CENTURY • AN OPRAH DAILY BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE PAST TWO DECADESOne of the most acclaimed books of our time, this modern classic “has set a new standard for reporting
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The Road to Wigan Pier

by George Orwell ...

Narrated by Frederick Davidson ...

Unabridged

7 hours 44 min

When Orwell went to the north of England in the thirties to find out how industrial workers lived, he not only observed but shared in their experience. He stayed in cramped, dreary lodgings and subsisted on the scant, cheerless diet of the poor. He went down into the coal mines and walked crouching, as the miners did, through a one- to three-mile passage too low to stand up in. He watched the back ... Read more

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When Orwell went to the north of England in the thirties to find out how industrial workers lived, he not only observed but shared in their experience. He stayed in cramped, dreary lodgings and subsisted on the scant, cheerless diet of the poor. He went down into the coal mines and walked crouching, as the miners did, through a one- to three-mile passage too low to stand up in. He watched the back
... Read more
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There Is No Place for Us

Working and Homeless in America

by Brian Goldstone ...

Narrated by Brian Goldstone, Dion Graham ...

Unabridged

13 hours 19 min

**WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES AND THE ATLANTIC’S TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR • ONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR • Through the “revelatory and gut-wrenching” (Associated Press) stories of five Atlanta families, this landmark work of journalism exposes a new and troubling trend—the dramatic rise of the working homeless in cities across America.“An ... Read more

$25.99 USD

**WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES AND THE ATLANTIC’S TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR • ONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR • Through the “revelatory and gut-wrenching” (Associated Press) stories of five Atlanta families, this landmark work of journalism exposes a new and troubling trend—the dramatic rise of the working homeless in cities across America.“An
... Read more
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The Condemnation of Blackness

Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America

by Khalil Gibran Muhammad ...

Narrated by Mirron Willis ...

Unabridged

12 hours 43 min

Lynch mobs, chain gangs, and popular views of black southern criminals that defined the Jim Crow South are well known. We know less about the role of the urban North in shaping views of race and crime in American society.Following the 1890 census—the first to measure the generation of African Americans born after slavery—crime statistics, new migration and immigration trends, and symbolic ... Read more

$17.99 USD

Lynch mobs, chain gangs, and popular views of black southern criminals that defined the Jim Crow South are well known. We know less about the role of the urban North in shaping views of race and crime in American society.Following the 1890 census—the first to measure the generation of African Americans born after slavery—crime statistics, new migration and immigration trends, and symbolic
... Read more
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Abolish Rent

How Tenants Can End the Housing Crisis

by Tracy Rosenthal, Leonardo Vilchis ...

Narrated by Sharp Radway ...

Unabridged

5 hours 39 min

Abolish Rent takes aim at one of the foremost engines of inequality and injustice.Rent drives millions into debt, despair, and onto the streets. The social cost of rent is too damn high. Written for anyone fed up with the permanent housing crisis, complicit politicians, and real estate greed, Abolish Rent dissects our housing system from the perspective of those it immiserates. Through unsparing ... Read more

$12.99 USD

Abolish Rent takes aim at one of the foremost engines of inequality and injustice.Rent drives millions into debt, despair, and onto the streets. The social cost of rent is too damn high. Written for anyone fed up with the permanent housing crisis, complicit politicians, and real estate greed, Abolish Rent dissects our housing system from the perspective of those it immiserates. Through unsparing
... Read more
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Activist The Black Book

The 14 Chambers

by LYRIC HAWKINS ...

Narrated by Digital Voice Madison G ...

Series Audiobook 1 - THE 14 CHAMBERS OF POWER ROOTS & RESISTANCE
Unabridged

3 hours 38 min

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.ACTIVIST THE BLACK BOOK | THE 14 CHAMBERS"Activist: The Black Book - The 14 Chambers" by Lyric Hawkins is a compelling exploration of social injustice, police brutality, and the fight against racism. It is more than a book; it is a call to action, an anthem for those who refuse to be silent in the face of injustice. an anthem for change that echoes ... Read more

$19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.ACTIVIST THE BLACK BOOK | THE 14 CHAMBERS"Activist: The Black Book - The 14 Chambers" by Lyric Hawkins is a compelling exploration of social injustice, police brutality, and the fight against racism. It is more than a book; it is a call to action, an anthem for those who refuse to be silent in the face of injustice. an anthem for change that echoes
... Read more
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Black Men: Obsolete, Single, Dangerous?

The Afrikan American Familiy in Transition : Essays in Discovery, Solution, and Hope

by Haki R. Madhubuti ...

Unabridged

9 hours 6 min

Essays discuss the status of the contemporary African American family, examining current concerns and problems, and offering possible solutions to the troubles they face ... Read more

$20.99 USD

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Essays discuss the status of the contemporary African American family, examining current concerns and problems, and offering possible solutions to the troubles they face
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Inside Studio 54

by Mark Fleischman ...

Narrated by David Colacci ...

Unabridged

13 hours 13 min

In Inside Studio 54, the former owner takes you behind the scenes of the most famous nightclub in the world, through the crowd, to a place where celebrities, friends, and the beautiful people sip champagne and share lines of cocaine using rolled-up hundred-dollar bills. In the early eighties, Mark Fleischman reopened Studio 54, the world's most glamorous and notorious nightclub, after it was ... Read more

$20.99 USD

In Inside Studio 54, the former owner takes you behind the scenes of the most famous nightclub in the world, through the crowd, to a place where celebrities, friends, and the beautiful people sip champagne and share lines of cocaine using rolled-up hundred-dollar bills. In the early eighties, Mark Fleischman reopened Studio 54, the world's most glamorous and notorious nightclub, after it was
... Read more
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Feet on the Street

Rambles Around New Orleans

by Roy Blount Jr. ...

Narrated by Paul Boehmer ...

Unabridged

3 hours 45 min

“Betcha I can tell ya / Where ya / Got them shoooes. / Betchadollar, / Betchadollar, / Where ya / Got them shoooes. / Got your shoes on your feet, / Got your feet on the street, / And the street’s in Noo / Awlins, Loo- / Eez-ee-anna. Where I, for my part, first ate a live oyster and first saw a naked woman with the lights on. . . . Every time I go to New Orleans I am startled by something.”So ... Read more

$12.99 USD

“Betcha I can tell ya / Where ya / Got them shoooes. / Betchadollar, / Betchadollar, / Where ya / Got them shoooes. / Got your shoes on your feet, / Got your feet on the street, / And the street’s in Noo / Awlins, Loo- / Eez-ee-anna. Where I, for my part, first ate a live oyster and first saw a naked woman with the lights on. . . . Every time I go to New Orleans I am startled by something.”So
... Read more
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Gentrification Is Inevitable and Other Lies

by Leslie Kern ...

Narrated by Parmida Vand ...

Unabridged

8 hours 34 min

From the author of the best-selling Feminist City, this urbanite’s guide to gentrification knocks down the myths and exposes the forces behind the most urgent housing crisis of our time.Gentrification is no longer a phenomenon to be debated by geographers or downplayed by urban planners—it’s an experience lived and felt by working-class people everywhere. Leslie Kern travels to Toronto, Vancouver, ... Read more

$24.99 USD

From the author of the best-selling Feminist City, this urbanite’s guide to gentrification knocks down the myths and exposes the forces behind the most urgent housing crisis of our time.Gentrification is no longer a phenomenon to be debated by geographers or downplayed by urban planners—it’s an experience lived and felt by working-class people everywhere. Leslie Kern travels to Toronto, Vancouver,
... Read more
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Darkest England

by Idries Shah ...

Narrated by David Ault ...

Unabridged

13 hours 24 min

In his best-selling Darkest England, Idries Shah asserts that the English hail from a little-known place called ‘Hathaby’, but their roots go back much farther, perhaps to the distant Asian realm of Sakasina. Once a nomadic tribe of warriors, the English fled westward, bringing with them epic tales, traditions, and an Oriental way of thought.Shah charts the genius of the English in adopting and ... Read more

$24.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

In his best-selling Darkest England, Idries Shah asserts that the English hail from a little-known place called ‘Hathaby’, but their roots go back much farther, perhaps to the distant Asian realm of Sakasina. Once a nomadic tribe of warriors, the English fled westward, bringing with them epic tales, traditions, and an Oriental way of thought.Shah charts the genius of the English in adopting and
... Read more
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This City Is Killing Me

Community Trauma and Toxic Stress in Urban America

by Jonathan Foiles ...

Narrated by Kevin Kenerly ...

Unabridged

3 hours 13 min

When Jonathan Foiles was a graduate student in social work, he had to choose between a mental health or policy track. But once he began working, he found it impossible to tell the two apart. While helping poor patients from the south side and west side of Chicago, he realized that individual therapy could not take into account the importance of unemployment, poverty, lack of affordable housing, ... Read more

$14.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

When Jonathan Foiles was a graduate student in social work, he had to choose between a mental health or policy track. But once he began working, he found it impossible to tell the two apart. While helping poor patients from the south side and west side of Chicago, he realized that individual therapy could not take into account the importance of unemployment, poverty, lack of affordable housing,
... Read more
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The New Urban Crisis

How Our Cities Are Increasing Inequality, Deepening Segregation, and Failing the Middle Class—and What We Can Do about It

by Richard Florida ...

Narrated by Traber Burns ...

Unabridged

8 hours 3 min

In recent years, the young, educated, and affluent have surged back into cities, reversing decades of suburban flight and urban decline. And yet all is not well, Richard Florida argues in The New Urban Crisis. Florida, one of the first scholars to anticipate this back-to-the-city movement in his groundbreaking The Rise of the Creative Class, demonstrates how the same forces that power the growth ... Read more

$19.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

In recent years, the young, educated, and affluent have surged back into cities, reversing decades of suburban flight and urban decline. And yet all is not well, Richard Florida argues in The New Urban Crisis. Florida, one of the first scholars to anticipate this back-to-the-city movement in his groundbreaking The Rise of the Creative Class, demonstrates how the same forces that power the growth
... Read more
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Detroit City Is the Place to Be

The Afterlife of an American Metropolis

by Mark Binelli ...

Narrated by Matt Godfrey ...

Unabridged

11 hours 43 min

Once America’s capitalist dream town, Detroit is our country’s greatest urban failure, having fallen the longest and the farthest. But the city’s worst crisis yet (and that’s saying something) has managed to do the unthinkable: turn the end of days into a laboratory for the future. Urban planners, land speculators, neopastoral agriculturalists, and utopian environmentalists―all have been drawn to ... Read more

$22.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Once America’s capitalist dream town, Detroit is our country’s greatest urban failure, having fallen the longest and the farthest. But the city’s worst crisis yet (and that’s saying something) has managed to do the unthinkable: turn the end of days into a laboratory for the future. Urban planners, land speculators, neopastoral agriculturalists, and utopian environmentalists―all have been drawn to
... Read more
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Busted

A Tale of Corruption and Betrayal in the City of Brotherly Love

by Wendy Ruderman, Barbara Laker ...

Narrated by Rachel Fulginiti ...

Unabridged

6 hours 55 min

In the vein of Erin Brockovich, The Departed, and T. J. English's Savage City comes Busted, the shocking true story of the biggest police corruption scandal in Philadelphia history, a tale of drugs, power, and abuse involving a rogue narcotics squad, a confidential informant, and two veteran journalists whose reporting drove a full-scale FBI probe, rocked the City of Brotherly Love, and earned a ... Read more

$23.99 USD

In the vein of Erin Brockovich, The Departed, and T. J. English's Savage City comes Busted, the shocking true story of the biggest police corruption scandal in Philadelphia history, a tale of drugs, power, and abuse involving a rogue narcotics squad, a confidential informant, and two veteran journalists whose reporting drove a full-scale FBI probe, rocked the City of Brotherly Love, and earned a
... Read more
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Guts

The Anatomy of The Walking Dead

by Paul Vigna ...

Narrated by Graham Halstead ...

Unabridged

8 hours 49 min

In this first and only guide to AMC’s exceptional hit series The Walking Dead, the Wall Street Journal’s Walking Dead columnist celebrates the show, its storylines, characters, and development, and examines its popularity and cultural resonance.From its first episode, The Walking Dead took fans in the United States and across the world by storm, becoming the highest-rated series in the history of ... Read more

$28.99 USD

In this first and only guide to AMC’s exceptional hit series The Walking Dead, the Wall Street Journal’s Walking Dead columnist celebrates the show, its storylines, characters, and development, and examines its popularity and cultural resonance.From its first episode, The Walking Dead took fans in the United States and across the world by storm, becoming the highest-rated series in the history of
... Read more
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After Redlining

The Urban Reinvestment Movement in the Era of Financial Deregulation

by Rebecca K. Marchiel ...

Narrated by Auto-narrated ...

Unabridged

10 hours 41 min

Focusing on Chicago’s West Side, After Redlining illuminates how urban activists were able to change banks’ behavior to support investment in communities that they had once abandoned.American banks, to their eternal discredit, long played a key role in disenfranchising nonwhite urbanites and, through redlining, blighting the very city neighborhoods that needed the most investment. Banks long ... Read more

$9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Focusing on Chicago’s West Side, After Redlining illuminates how urban activists were able to change banks’ behavior to support investment in communities that they had once abandoned.American banks, to their eternal discredit, long played a key role in disenfranchising nonwhite urbanites and, through redlining, blighting the very city neighborhoods that needed the most investment. Banks long
... Read more
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Cities and the Wealth of Nations

Principles of Economic Life

by Jane Jacobs ...

Narrated by Bernadette Dunne ...

Unabridged

10 hours 31 min

In this eye-opening work of economic theory, Jane Jacobs argues that it is cities—not nations—that are the drivers of wealth. Challenging centuries of economic orthodoxy, in Cities and the Wealth of Nations the beloved author contends that healthy cities are constantly evolving to replace imported goods with locally produced alternatives, spurring a cycle of vibrant economic growth. Intelligently ... Read more

$19.99 USD

In this eye-opening work of economic theory, Jane Jacobs argues that it is cities—not nations—that are the drivers of wealth. Challenging centuries of economic orthodoxy, in Cities and the Wealth of Nations the beloved author contends that healthy cities are constantly evolving to replace imported goods with locally produced alternatives, spurring a cycle of vibrant economic growth. Intelligently
... Read more
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Transforming Public Safety

Guiding the CVI Frontlines

by DeVone Boggan ...

Narrated by Anthony S. Goolsby ...

Unabridged

2 hours 48 min

A frontline guide. A field-tested philosophy. A bold call to protect what works.Transforming Public Safety is the first compact and accessible field guide written for the people doing the work of Community Violence Intervention (CVI)—those closest to the pain and promise of change. Designed in the spirit of a hands-on manual, this book equips outreach workers, violence interrupters, credible ... Read more

$7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

A frontline guide. A field-tested philosophy. A bold call to protect what works.Transforming Public Safety is the first compact and accessible field guide written for the people doing the work of Community Violence Intervention (CVI)—those closest to the pain and promise of change. Designed in the spirit of a hands-on manual, this book equips outreach workers, violence interrupters, credible
... Read more
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Bullies

A Friendship

by Alex Abramovich ...

Narrated by Alex Abramovich ...

Unabridged

6 hours 15 min

The powerful account of one writer's unlikely friendship with his childhood bully, now the president of a motorcycle club in one of America's most dangerous cities.Once upon a time, Alex Abramovich and Trevor Latham were mortal enemies: miniature outlaws in a Long Island elementary school, perpetually at each other's throats. Then they lost track of each other. Decades later, when they met again, ... Read more

$17.99 USD

The powerful account of one writer's unlikely friendship with his childhood bully, now the president of a motorcycle club in one of America's most dangerous cities.Once upon a time, Alex Abramovich and Trevor Latham were mortal enemies: miniature outlaws in a Long Island elementary school, perpetually at each other's throats. Then they lost track of each other. Decades later, when they met again,
... Read more
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Tightrope

Americans Reaching for Hope

by Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn ...

Narrated by Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn, Jennifer Garner ...

Unabridged

9 hours 43 min

The Pulitzer Prize-winning authors of the acclaimed, best-selling Half the Sky now issue a plea--deeply personal and told through the lives of real Americans--to address the crisis in working-class America, while focusing on solutions to mend a half century of governmental failure.With stark poignancy and political dispassion, Tightrope draws us deep into an "other America." The authors tell this ... Read more

$20.99 USD

The Pulitzer Prize-winning authors of the acclaimed, best-selling Half the Sky now issue a plea--deeply personal and told through the lives of real Americans--to address the crisis in working-class America, while focusing on solutions to mend a half century of governmental failure.With stark poignancy and political dispassion, Tightrope draws us deep into an "other America." The authors tell this
... Read more
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En antikvarboghandlers erindringer

by Jørn Riel ...

Narrated by Peter Milling ...

Unabridged

4 hours 32 min

"En antikvarboghandlers erindringer" er en humoristisk fortælling om antikvaren og særlingen R. Hansen og hans gøren og laden på Vesterbro. En bydel som han elsker og kender, som sin egen højre hånd og lidet gerne forlader.Bogen er en humørfyldt historie spækket med finurlige figurer og sjove sidehistorier, der trækker i smilebåndene i den helt rigtige retning - nemlig opad."En antikvarboghandlers ... Read more

$6.99 USD

"En antikvarboghandlers erindringer" er en humoristisk fortælling om antikvaren og særlingen R. Hansen og hans gøren og laden på Vesterbro. En bydel som han elsker og kender, som sin egen højre hånd og lidet gerne forlader.Bogen er en humørfyldt historie spækket med finurlige figurer og sjove sidehistorier, der trækker i smilebåndene i den helt rigtige retning - nemlig opad."En antikvarboghandlers
... Read more

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