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Poor
- Grit, Courage, and the Life-Changing Value of Self-Belief
- Written by: Katriona O'Sullivan
- Narrated by: Katriona O'Sullivan
- Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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As the middle of five kids growing up in dire poverty, the odds were low on Katriona O'Sullivan making anything of her life. Poor is the extraordinary story - moving, funny, brave, and sometimes startling - of how Katriona turned her life around....
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So many emotions
- By CLAIRE on 2024-05-30
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Poverty, by America
- Written by: Matthew Desmond
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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The United States, the richest country on earth, has more poverty than any other advanced democracy....
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A Powerful Message
- By Jezel on 2023-07-01
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Evicted
- Poverty and Profit in the American City
- Written by: Matthew Desmond
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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In Evicted, Princeton sociologist and MacArthur “Genius” Matthew Desmond follows eight families in Milwaukee as they each struggle to keep a roof over their heads....
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Deeply Sad Learning
- By Christan on 2019-01-15
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Hillbilly Elegy
- A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
- Written by: J. D. Vance
- Narrated by: J. D. Vance
- Length: 6 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis - that of white working-class Americans....
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Great social analysis wrapped in storytelling
- By Erin on 2018-09-20
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Invisible Child
- Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City
- Written by: Andrea Elliott
- Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo
- Length: 21 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Andrea Elliott follows eight dramatic years in the life of Dasani, a girl whose imagination is as soaring as the skyscrapers near her Brooklyn shelter, weaving the story of her childhood with the history of her ancestors, tracing their passage from slavery to the Great Migration north....
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Well Written & Well Read
- By Terence K O'Riordan on 2023-06-14
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Chercher Sam
- Written by: Sophie Bienvenu
- Narrated by: Maxime Mailloux
- Length: 2 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Mathieu vit dans la rue. Il l’a choisi. Ce n’est pas un aventurier, et ça n’a rien à voir avec la liberté. Est-ce qu’il s’autodétruit? Est-ce ainsi qu’il se préserve? Peu importe....
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Exceptionnel
- By Loulou Charron on 2020-05-20
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Poor
- Grit, Courage, and the Life-Changing Value of Self-Belief
- Written by: Katriona O'Sullivan
- Narrated by: Katriona O'Sullivan
- Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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As the middle of five kids growing up in dire poverty, the odds were low on Katriona O'Sullivan making anything of her life. Poor is the extraordinary story - moving, funny, brave, and sometimes startling - of how Katriona turned her life around....
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So many emotions
- By CLAIRE on 2024-05-30
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Poverty, by America
- Written by: Matthew Desmond
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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The United States, the richest country on earth, has more poverty than any other advanced democracy....
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A Powerful Message
- By Jezel on 2023-07-01
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Evicted
- Poverty and Profit in the American City
- Written by: Matthew Desmond
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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In Evicted, Princeton sociologist and MacArthur “Genius” Matthew Desmond follows eight families in Milwaukee as they each struggle to keep a roof over their heads....
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Deeply Sad Learning
- By Christan on 2019-01-15
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Hillbilly Elegy
- A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
- Written by: J. D. Vance
- Narrated by: J. D. Vance
- Length: 6 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis - that of white working-class Americans....
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Great social analysis wrapped in storytelling
- By Erin on 2018-09-20
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Invisible Child
- Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City
- Written by: Andrea Elliott
- Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo
- Length: 21 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Andrea Elliott follows eight dramatic years in the life of Dasani, a girl whose imagination is as soaring as the skyscrapers near her Brooklyn shelter, weaving the story of her childhood with the history of her ancestors, tracing their passage from slavery to the Great Migration north....
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Well Written & Well Read
- By Terence K O'Riordan on 2023-06-14
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Chercher Sam
- Written by: Sophie Bienvenu
- Narrated by: Maxime Mailloux
- Length: 2 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Mathieu vit dans la rue. Il l’a choisi. Ce n’est pas un aventurier, et ça n’a rien à voir avec la liberté. Est-ce qu’il s’autodétruit? Est-ce ainsi qu’il se préserve? Peu importe....
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Exceptionnel
- By Loulou Charron on 2020-05-20
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Beneath the Neon: Life and Death in the Tunnels of Las Vegas
- Written by: Matthew O'Brien
- Narrated by: Alan Carlson
- Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Armed with a flashlight, tape recorder, and expandable baton, Las Vegas CityLife writer-editor Matthew O'Brien explored the Las Vegas flood-control system for more than four years. This audiobook chronicles O'Brien's adventures in subterranean Vegas....
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The Great Divergence
- America's Growing Inequality Crisis and What We Can Do about It
- Written by: Timothy Noah
- Narrated by: John Allen Nelson
- Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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For the past three decades, America has steadily become a nation of haves and have-nots. Our incomes are increasingly unequal....
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The Corner
- A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood
- Written by: David Simon, Edward Burns
- Narrated by: Dion Graham, David Simon
- Length: 25 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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The crime-infested intersection of West Fayette and Monroe Streets is well-known - and cautiously avoided - by most of Baltimore. But this notorious corner's 24-hour open-air drug market provides the economic fuel for a dying neighborhood....
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Walking the Bowl
- A True Story of Murder and Survival Among the Street Children of Lusaka
- Written by: Chris Lockhart, Daniel Mulilo Chama
- Narrated by: Hlonela Ngqwebo
- Length: 9 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Based on years of investigative reporting and unprecedented fieldwork, Walking the Bowl immerses readers in the daily lives of four unforgettable characters....
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it was excellent, totally absorbing.
- By Anonymous User on 2022-08-03
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Maid
- Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive
- Written by: Stephanie Land, Barbara Ehrenreich - foreword
- Narrated by: Stephanie Land
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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At 28, Stephanie Land's dreams of attending a university and becoming a writer quickly dissolved when a summer fling turned into an unplanned pregnancy. Before long, she found herself a single mother, scraping by as a housekeeper to make ends meet....
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Not climatic without context
- By Anonymous User on 2024-02-29
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The End of Poverty
- Economic Possibilities for Our Time
- Written by: Jeffrey Sachs
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hilgartner
- Length: 13 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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The landmark exploration of economic prosperity and how the world can escape from extreme poverty for the world's poorest citizens, from one of the world's most renowned economists....
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Enough
- Why the World's Poorest Starve in An Age of Plenty
- Written by: Roger Thurow, Scott Kilman
- Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
- Length: 11 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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For more than 30 years, humankind has known how to grow enough food to end chronic hunger worldwide.....
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Grace Can Lead Us Home
- A Christian Call to End Homelessness
- Written by: Kevin Nye
- Narrated by: Kevin Nye
- Length: 5 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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On any given night, more than half a million Americans and Canadians find themselves sleeping on the streets, in shelters, cars, and other places not meant for human habitation. Yet as this crisis continues to grow, it remains one of the least talked about—especially in churches....
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The Poverty Industry
- The Exploitation of America's Most Vulnerable Citizens
- Written by: Daniel L. Hatcher
- Narrated by: Colleen Patrick
- Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
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Government aid doesn't always go where it's supposed to....
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High-Risers
- Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing
- Written by: Ben Austen
- Narrated by: Ron Butler
- Length: 13 hrs and 33 mins
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High-Risers braids personal narratives, city politics, and national history to tell the timely and epic story of Chicago's Cabrini-Green, America's most iconic public housing project....
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Thirst
- A Story of Redemption, Compassion, and a Mission to Bring Clean Water to the World
- Written by: Scott Harrison, Lisa Sweetingham - contributor
- Narrated by: Scott Harrison
- Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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An inspiring personal story of redemption, second chances, and the transformative power within us all, from the founder and CEO of the nonprofit charity: water....
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Not what I expected - but I'm glad I listened
- By J. Paul Nadeau on 2022-02-22
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When Helping Hurts
- How to Alleviate Poverty Without Hurting the Poor...and Yourself
- Written by: Steve Corbett, Brian Fikkert
- Narrated by: Brendan Hunter
- Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Poverty is much more than simply a lack of material resources, and it takes much more than donations and handouts to solve it....
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Leaving Breezy Street
- A Memoir
- Written by: Brenda Myers-Powell, April Reynolds - contributor
- Narrated by: Karen Chilton
- Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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When Breezy, as she came to call herself, hit the streets of Chicago as a prostitute in 1973 she was barely a teenager. But she was pretty and funny as hell, and determined to support her daughters and make a living....
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Behind the Beautiful Forevers
- Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
- Written by: Katherine Boo
- Narrated by: Sunil Malhotra
- Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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In this breathtaking book by Pulitzer Prize winner Katherine Boo, a bewildering age of global change and inequality is made human through the dramatic story of families striving toward a better life in Annawadi, a makeshift settlement in the shadow of luxury hotels....
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beautiful
- By Grace on 2021-01-17
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Same Kind of Different as Me
- A Modern-Day Slave, an International Art Dealer, and the Unlikely Woman Who Bound Them Together
- Written by: Ron Hall, Denver Moore, Lynn Vincent - contributor
- Narrated by: Daniel Butler, Barry Scott
- Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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A critically acclaimed #1 New York Times bestseller with more than one million copies in print and a major motion picture! Gritty with pain, betrayal, and brutality, this incredible true story also shines with an unexpected, life-changing love....
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Inspiring and emotional
- By Paulo Carneiro on 2019-01-29
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A Framework for Understanding Poverty
- A Cognitive Approach (Sixth Edition)
- Written by: Ruby K. Payne PhD
- Narrated by: Ruby K. Payne
- Length: 6 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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With a view through an economic lens that has only become sharper and more focused since its initial publication in 1995, the premise owned by A Framework for Understanding Poverty is unchanged....
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Homelessness Is a Housing Problem
- How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns
- Written by: Gregg Colburn, Clayton Page Aldern
- Narrated by: Adam Verner
- Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Colburn and Aldern seek to explain the substantial regional variation in rates of homelessness in cities across the United States. In a departure from many analytical approaches, the authors shift their focus from the individual experiencing homelessness to the metropolitan area....
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Vagabonds
- Life on the Streets of Nineteenth-Century London
- Written by: Oskar Jensen
- Narrated by: Oskar Jensen
- Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Dickensian London is brought to real and vivid life in this innovative, accessible social history, revealing the true character of this place and time through the stories of its street denizens.
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The White Man's Burden
- Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good
- Written by: William Easterly
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 14 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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The White Man's Burden is a brilliant and blistering indictment of the West's economic policies for the world's poor....
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Interstate 69
- The Unfinished History of the Last Great American Highway
- Written by: Matt Dellinger
- Narrated by: Robert Fass
- Length: 12 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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infrastructure. If completed, I-69 will stretch from Canada to Mexico through Michigan, Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas....
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Rough Sleepers
- Dr. Jim O’Connell’s Urgent Mission to Bring Healing to Homeless People
- Written by: Tracy Kidder
- Narrated by: Tracy Kidder
- Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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After Jim O’Connell graduated from Harvard Medical School and was nearing the end of his residency at Massachusetts General, the hospital’s chief of medicine made a proposal....
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The Diaspora of Belonging
- Gentrification, Systems of Oppression, and Why Our Cities Are Out of Place
- Written by: Jay Sharma
- Narrated by: Jay Sharma
- Length: 6 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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In The Diaspora of Belonging, author Jay Sharma explores the history of systemic racism, structural oppression, and state-sanctioned discrimination and injustice as it relates to urban settings. Sharma demonstrates how calculated decisions regarding our cities are....
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When We Walk By
- Forgotten Humanity, Broken Systems, and the Role We Can Each Play in Ending Homelessness in America
- Written by: Kevin F. Adler, Donald W. Burnes, Amanda Banh - contributor, and others
- Narrated by: Kevin F. Adler
- Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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When We Walk By takes an urgent look at homelessness in America, showing us what we lose—in ourselves and as a society—when we choose to walk past and ignore our neighbors in shelters, insecure housing, or on the streets....
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The Great Displacement
- Climate Change and the Next American Migration
- Written by: Jake Bittle
- Narrated by: Matt Godfrey
- Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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A human-centered narrative with national scope, The Great Displacement is the untold story of climate migration in the United States—the personal stories of those experiencing displacement, the portraits of communities being torn apart by disaster, and the implications for all of us....
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Vagabonds
- Life on the Streets of Nineteenth-Century London
- Written by: Oskar Jensen
- Narrated by: Oskar Jensen
- Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
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London, 1857: Two teenage girls holding a sign that says "Fugitive Slaves" ask for money on the corner of Blackman Street. After a constable accosts them and charges them with begging, they end up in court, where newspapers pick up their story. Are the girls truly escaped slaves from Kentucky? Or will the city's dystopian Mendicity Society catch them in a lie, exposing them as born-and-raised Londoners and endangering their safety? With its many accounts of people like these who lived and made their living on the streets, Vagabonds forms a moving picture of London's most compelling period.
Written by: Oskar Jensen
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Hope over Fate
- Fazle Hasan Abed and the Science of Ending Global Poverty
- Written by: Scott MacMillan
- Narrated by: Scott MacMillan
- Length: 15 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times called him "one of the unsung heroes of modern times." Fazle Hasan Abed was a mild-mannered accountant who may be the most influential man most people have never even heard of. A former finance executive with almost no experience in relief aid, he founded BRAC, originally the Bangladesh Rehabilitation Assistance Committee, in 1972, aiming to help a few thousand war refugees. A half century later, BRAC is by many measures the largest nongovernmental organization in the world-and by many accounts, the most effective anti-poverty program ever.
Written by: Scott MacMillan
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Making Room
- Three Decades of Fighting for Beds, Belonging, and a Safe Place for LGBTQ Youth
- Written by: Carl Siciliano
- Narrated by: Carl Siciliano
- Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Carl Siciliano met Ali Forney—a Black nonbinary teenager known for fierce loyalty to friends and an unshakeable faith that “my God will love me for who I am”—in 1994 while working at a daytime center for homeless youth in New York City. Nineteen years old, Forney was one of thousands Siciliano encountered who had been driven from their homes by rejecting families, forced to struggle in the streets due to homophobic and transphobic violence in the shelters.
Written by: Carl Siciliano
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Progress and Poverty
- Written by: Henry George
- Narrated by: Jason Smith
- Length: 15 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Progress and Poverty by Henry George explores the paradox of increasing inequality in periods of economic growth. George proposes that land speculation is the root cause of wealth disparities, advocating for a single tax on land value to promote fairness and reduce poverty. This influential work is critical for understanding economic and social theories regarding land reform and taxation.
Written by: Henry George
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If You Really Want to Help
- Redefining the War on Poverty
- Written by: Kurt Kandler, Bethany Bradsher
- Narrated by: Kurt Kandler
- Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Good intentions aren't good enough. Everyone wants to see extreme poverty alleviated, but too often well-meaning do-gooders believe good intentions and their carefully crafted solutions are sufficient. But poverty is more than just a material issue, and the poor are more than a set of problems to be solved. The founder of 410 Bridge shares a proven blueprint for addressing extreme poverty by changing the paradigm of how the West engages the global poor.
Written by: Kurt Kandler, and others
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A Paradise of Small Houses
- The Evolution, Devolution, and Potential Rebirth of Urban Housing
- Written by: Max Podemski
- Narrated by: Rob Greenbaum
- Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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The Philadelphia row house. The New York tenement. The Boston triple-decker. Every American city has its own iconic housing style, structures that have been home to generations of families and are symbols of identity and pride. Max Podemski, an urban planner for the city of Los Angeles and lifelong architecture buff, has spent his career in and around these buildings. Deftly combining his years of experience with extensive research, Podemski walks the listener through the history of our dwelling spaces.
Written by: Max Podemski
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Vagabonds
- Life on the Streets of Nineteenth-Century London
- Written by: Oskar Jensen
- Narrated by: Oskar Jensen
- Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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London, 1857: Two teenage girls holding a sign that says "Fugitive Slaves" ask for money on the corner of Blackman Street. After a constable accosts them and charges them with begging, they end up in court, where newspapers pick up their story. Are the girls truly escaped slaves from Kentucky? Or will the city's dystopian Mendicity Society catch them in a lie, exposing them as born-and-raised Londoners and endangering their safety? With its many accounts of people like these who lived and made their living on the streets, Vagabonds forms a moving picture of London's most compelling period.
Written by: Oskar Jensen
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Hope over Fate
- Fazle Hasan Abed and the Science of Ending Global Poverty
- Written by: Scott MacMillan
- Narrated by: Scott MacMillan
- Length: 15 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times called him "one of the unsung heroes of modern times." Fazle Hasan Abed was a mild-mannered accountant who may be the most influential man most people have never even heard of. A former finance executive with almost no experience in relief aid, he founded BRAC, originally the Bangladesh Rehabilitation Assistance Committee, in 1972, aiming to help a few thousand war refugees. A half century later, BRAC is by many measures the largest nongovernmental organization in the world-and by many accounts, the most effective anti-poverty program ever.
Written by: Scott MacMillan
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Making Room
- Three Decades of Fighting for Beds, Belonging, and a Safe Place for LGBTQ Youth
- Written by: Carl Siciliano
- Narrated by: Carl Siciliano
- Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Carl Siciliano met Ali Forney—a Black nonbinary teenager known for fierce loyalty to friends and an unshakeable faith that “my God will love me for who I am”—in 1994 while working at a daytime center for homeless youth in New York City. Nineteen years old, Forney was one of thousands Siciliano encountered who had been driven from their homes by rejecting families, forced to struggle in the streets due to homophobic and transphobic violence in the shelters.
Written by: Carl Siciliano
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Progress and Poverty
- Written by: Henry George
- Narrated by: Jason Smith
- Length: 15 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
Progress and Poverty by Henry George explores the paradox of increasing inequality in periods of economic growth. George proposes that land speculation is the root cause of wealth disparities, advocating for a single tax on land value to promote fairness and reduce poverty. This influential work is critical for understanding economic and social theories regarding land reform and taxation.
Written by: Henry George
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If You Really Want to Help
- Redefining the War on Poverty
- Written by: Kurt Kandler, Bethany Bradsher
- Narrated by: Kurt Kandler
- Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Good intentions aren't good enough. Everyone wants to see extreme poverty alleviated, but too often well-meaning do-gooders believe good intentions and their carefully crafted solutions are sufficient. But poverty is more than just a material issue, and the poor are more than a set of problems to be solved. The founder of 410 Bridge shares a proven blueprint for addressing extreme poverty by changing the paradigm of how the West engages the global poor.
Written by: Kurt Kandler, and others
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A Paradise of Small Houses
- The Evolution, Devolution, and Potential Rebirth of Urban Housing
- Written by: Max Podemski
- Narrated by: Rob Greenbaum
- Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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The Philadelphia row house. The New York tenement. The Boston triple-decker. Every American city has its own iconic housing style, structures that have been home to generations of families and are symbols of identity and pride. Max Podemski, an urban planner for the city of Los Angeles and lifelong architecture buff, has spent his career in and around these buildings. Deftly combining his years of experience with extensive research, Podemski walks the listener through the history of our dwelling spaces.
Written by: Max Podemski