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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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When Crack Was King

A People's History of a Misunderstood Era

by Donovan X. Ramsey ...

Narrated by Donovan X. Ramsey ...

Unabridged

11 hours 33 min

LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD • A “vivid and frank” (NPR) account of the crack cocaine era and a community’s ultimate resilience, told through a cast of characters whose lives illuminate the dramatic rise and fall of the epidemic“A master class in disrupting a stubborn narrative, a monumental feat for the fraught subject of addiction in Black communities.”—The Washington Post“A poignant ... Read more

$22.50 USD

LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD • A “vivid and frank” (NPR) account of the crack cocaine era and a community’s ultimate resilience, told through a cast of characters whose lives illuminate the dramatic rise and fall of the epidemic“A master class in disrupting a stubborn narrative, a monumental feat for the fraught subject of addiction in Black communities.”—The Washington Post“A poignant
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Man in the Mirror

Hope, Struggle, and Belonging in an American City

by Anand Giridharadas ...

Narrated by Anand Giridharadas ...

Unabridged

17 hours 40 min

**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From acclaimed journalist Anand Giridharadas, a groundbreaking feat of reporting on a tragic encounter in a New York subway car that held up a mirror to a troubled and divided nation“A tour de force of sharp-eyed reporting, powerful narrative, and heartbreaking tragedy. . . . Brilliant and spellbinding.”—Robert B. Reich, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Coming ... Read more

$29.00 USD

**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From acclaimed journalist Anand Giridharadas, a groundbreaking feat of reporting on a tragic encounter in a New York subway car that held up a mirror to a troubled and divided nation“A tour de force of sharp-eyed reporting, powerful narrative, and heartbreaking tragedy. . . . Brilliant and spellbinding.”—Robert B. Reich, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Coming
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Metropolis

A History of the City, Humankind's Greatest Invention

by Ben Wilson ...

Narrated by John Sackville ...

Unabridged

17 hours 7 min

**In a captivating tour of cities famous and forgotten, acclaimed historian Ben Wilson tells the glorious, millennia-spanning story how urban living sparked humankind's greatest innovations.“A towering achievement.... Reading this book is like visiting an exhilarating city for the first time—dazzling.” —The Wall Street Journal**During the two hundred millennia of humanity’s existence, nothing has ... Read more

$25.00 USD

**In a captivating tour of cities famous and forgotten, acclaimed historian Ben Wilson tells the glorious, millennia-spanning story how urban living sparked humankind's greatest innovations.“A towering achievement.... Reading this book is like visiting an exhilarating city for the first time—dazzling.” —The Wall Street Journal**During the two hundred millennia of humanity’s existence, nothing has
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Living and Dying in Brick City

An E.R. Doctor Returns Home

by Sampson Davis, Lisa Frazier Page ...

Narrated by Cary Hite ...

Unabridged

8 hours 17 min

This is a riveting personal exploration of the health-care crisis facing inner-city communities, written by an emergency room physician who grew up in the very neighborhood he is now serving.Sampson Davis is best known as one of three friends from inner-city Newark who made a pact in high school to become doctors. Their book The Pact and the work they have done with the Three Doctors Foundation ... Read more

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This is a riveting personal exploration of the health-care crisis facing inner-city communities, written by an emergency room physician who grew up in the very neighborhood he is now serving.Sampson Davis is best known as one of three friends from inner-city Newark who made a pact in high school to become doctors. Their book The Pact and the work they have done with the Three Doctors Foundation
... Read more
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Architecture of Liberation, The

by Edward Todd Harris III ...

Narrated by Digital Voice Madison G ...

Unabridged

1 hour 6 min

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Look around your neighborhood. Rent is skyrocketing, grocery prices are out of reach, and the climate is throwing our seasons out of balance. We are told that the system is simply broken. But what if it's working exactly as designed? The Architecture of Liberation is not just another book complaining about global capitalism. It is a practical, step-by ... Read more

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This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Look around your neighborhood. Rent is skyrocketing, grocery prices are out of reach, and the climate is throwing our seasons out of balance. We are told that the system is simply broken. But what if it's working exactly as designed? The Architecture of Liberation is not just another book complaining about global capitalism. It is a practical, step-by
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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,
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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

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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

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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

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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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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

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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
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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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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
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What's Tha Up To?

Memories of a Yorkshire Bobby

by Martyn Johnson ...

Narrated by Martyn Johnson ...

Unabridged

6 hours 49 min

'I've turned boys into men and policemen into coppers,' said the Sergeant. 'Policemen have got brains, but coppers, they've got brains and common sense.'No two days were ever the same for bobby-on-the-beat Martyn Johnson. Come rain or come shine, he patrolled his patch with a sharp eye for troublemakers and a kind word for those in need of a friend. Whether he was pursuing unlikely coal thieves, ... Read more

$21.99 USD

'I've turned boys into men and policemen into coppers,' said the Sergeant. 'Policemen have got brains, but coppers, they've got brains and common sense.'No two days were ever the same for bobby-on-the-beat Martyn Johnson. Come rain or come shine, he patrolled his patch with a sharp eye for troublemakers and a kind word for those in need of a friend. Whether he was pursuing unlikely coal thieves,
... Read more
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Why Is Downing Street Painted Black?

And 364 Other Fun London Facts

by Jonnie Fielding ...

Narrated by Jonnie Fielding ...

Unabridged

6 hours 29 min

'Jonnie made me see London through new eyes.' James Corden'A charming and surprising alternative tour of London. We loved this book' Map MenJonnie 'is a conduit for the city's soul, distilling its chaotic history into digestible, engaging narratives' The TimesHave you ever tried to find a street named Bond Street? (Spoiler alert: it doesn’t exist!)Did you know you can’t dine for 13 at t... ... Read more

$23.99 USD

'Jonnie made me see London through new eyes.' James Corden'A charming and surprising alternative tour of London. We loved this book' Map MenJonnie 'is a conduit for the city's soul, distilling its chaotic history into digestible, engaging narratives' The TimesHave you ever tried to find a street named Bond Street? (Spoiler alert: it doesn’t exist!)Did you know you can’t dine for 13 at t...
... Read more
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Demography of the West, The

A Civilisation at the Crossroads

by Nathan Leon Webb ...

Narrated by Nathan Leon Webb ...

Unabridged

4 hours 19 min

How did a civilisation that once seemed destined to grow forever begin to shrink?The Demography of the West opens on the Swan coastal plain — three displacements that are not the same story: First Nations dispossession, a settler family priced out of Fremantle, and a Perth suburb reshaped after the pandemic by migration, housing pressure, and birth rates below replacement. From that human scale, ... Read more

$9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

How did a civilisation that once seemed destined to grow forever begin to shrink?The Demography of the West opens on the Swan coastal plain — three displacements that are not the same story: First Nations dispossession, a settler family priced out of Fremantle, and a Perth suburb reshaped after the pandemic by migration, housing pressure, and birth rates below replacement. From that human scale,
... Read more
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Nest City

How Citizens Serve Cities and Cities Serve Citizens

by Beth Sanders ...

Narrated by Beth Sanders ...

Unabridged

9 hours 46 min

Our linear ways of thinking about, organizing and planning our cities do not meet the true nature of cities as complex and messy systems. There are no simple solutions to the challenges we face: many citizens don't feel they belong; we don't agree on how to best move around; many don't have jobs or homes they can afford; we make running businesses hard work; we are facing challenges with the ... Read more

$15.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Our linear ways of thinking about, organizing and planning our cities do not meet the true nature of cities as complex and messy systems. There are no simple solutions to the challenges we face: many citizens don't feel they belong; we don't agree on how to best move around; many don't have jobs or homes they can afford; we make running businesses hard work; we are facing challenges with the
... Read more
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Rebound

Sports, Community, and the Inclusive City

by Perry King ...

Narrated by K.C. Collins ...

Unabridged

5 hours 51 min

From basketball hoops to cricket bats, the role community sports play in our cities and how crucial they are to diversity and inclusion.“The virus exposed how we live and work. It also revealed how we play, and what we lose when we have to stop.” For every kid who makes it to the NBA, thousands more seek out the pleasure and camaraderie of pick-up basketball in their local community centre or ... Read more

$22.99 USD

From basketball hoops to cricket bats, the role community sports play in our cities and how crucial they are to diversity and inclusion.“The virus exposed how we live and work. It also revealed how we play, and what we lose when we have to stop.” For every kid who makes it to the NBA, thousands more seek out the pleasure and camaraderie of pick-up basketball in their local community centre or
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Body parts

by Jan Larson ...

Narrated by Henrik Borup Nielsen ...

Unabridged

7 hours

Danske Vicki Salling og hendes franske kæreste, Luc Legrand, har bosat sig i det trøstesløse slumkvarter Dharavi i Mumbai, hvor en million mennesker bor stuvet sammen på et område på størrelse med Vickis hjemby, Lemvig. Her forsøger de som del af et nyt dansk hjælpeprojekt at forbedre vilkårene for områdets beboere. Politiet og myndighederne vover sig kun sjældent ind i området, der er blevet et ... Read more

$14.99 USD

Danske Vicki Salling og hendes franske kæreste, Luc Legrand, har bosat sig i det trøstesløse slumkvarter Dharavi i Mumbai, hvor en million mennesker bor stuvet sammen på et område på størrelse med Vickis hjemby, Lemvig. Her forsøger de som del af et nyt dansk hjælpeprojekt at forbedre vilkårene for områdets beboere. Politiet og myndighederne vover sig kun sjældent ind i området, der er blevet et
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Etnisten kaupunginosien tarinat

by Ville-Juhani Sutinen, Jarkko Lemetyinen ...

Narrated by Juhani Rajalin ...

Unabridged

8 hours 1 min

Etniset kaupunginosat ennen, nyt ja tulevaisuudessa.Ovatko etnisesti keskittyneet korttelit ongelma vai olennainen osa tulevaisuuden globaaleja kaupunkeja?Samaan aikaan, kun monia maahanmuuttajalähiöitä pelätään, suurkaupunkien Chinatownien ja Little Italyjen kaltaisten kortteleiden värikkyyttä ihastellaan. Ville-Juhani Sutinen kuljettaa lukijan Harlemin Finntownin kautta muun muassa Krakovan ... Read more

$21.79 USD

Etniset kaupunginosat ennen, nyt ja tulevaisuudessa.Ovatko etnisesti keskittyneet korttelit ongelma vai olennainen osa tulevaisuuden globaaleja kaupunkeja?Samaan aikaan, kun monia maahanmuuttajalähiöitä pelätään, suurkaupunkien Chinatownien ja Little Italyjen kaltaisten kortteleiden värikkyyttä ihastellaan. Ville-Juhani Sutinen kuljettaa lukijan Harlemin Finntownin kautta muun muassa Krakovan
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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
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Homes for Living

The Fight for Social Housing and a New American Commons

by Jonathan Tarleton ...

Narrated by Max Newland ...

Unabridged

9 hours 56 min

**A tale of two NYC affordable housing co-ops’ struggle over privatization, public goods, and the future of American housingA New Yorker Best Book of 2025**The American Dream of homeownership is becoming an American Delusion. As renters seek an escape from record-breaking rent hikes, first-time buyers find that skyrocketing interest rates and historically low inventory leave them with scant ... Read more

$28.00 USD

**A tale of two NYC affordable housing co-ops’ struggle over privatization, public goods, and the future of American housingA New Yorker Best Book of 2025**The American Dream of homeownership is becoming an American Delusion. As renters seek an escape from record-breaking rent hikes, first-time buyers find that skyrocketing interest rates and historically low inventory leave them with scant
... Read more

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