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    • Transportation for a Strong Town
    • Written by: Charles L. Marohn Jr.
    • Narrated by: Christopher Douyard
    • Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 2021-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 34 ratings
    • In Confessions of a Recovering Engineer, renowned speaker and author of Strong Towns Charles L. Marohn, Jr., delivers an accessible and engaging exploration of America's transportation system, laying bare the reasons why it no longer works as it once did....

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    • The Hidden Influence of the World's Most Powerful Consulting Firm
    • Written by: Walt Bogdanich, Michael Forsythe
    • Narrated by: Ari Fliakos
    • Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 2022-10-04
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 44 ratings
    • An explosive, deeply reported exposé of McKinsey & Company, the international consulting firm that advises corporations and governments, that highlights the often drastic impact of its work on employees and citizens around the world....

    Price: $26.22 or 1 Credit

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    • The Strong Towns Response to the Housing Crisis
    • Written by: Charles L. Marohn Jr., Daniel Herriges
    • Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne
    • Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 2024-05-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • This book offers a serious, yet accessible, history of housing policy in the United States and explains how it led us to this point in time: where we face a market that is rigged against people who, only a few decades ago, could have been homeowners or stable, long-term rentals.

    Price: $21.92 or 1 Credit

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    • Central Banks, Instability, and Avoiding the Next Collapse
    • Written by: Mohamed A. El-Erian
    • Narrated by: Dan Woren
    • Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 2016-03-29
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • Our current economic path is coming to an end. The signposts are all around us: sluggish growth, rising inequality, stubbornly high pockets of unemployment, and jittery financial markets, to name a few. Soon we will reach a fork in the road....

    Price: $23.31 or 1 Credit

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    • Inside the Meth Fiefdoms, Rebel Hideouts and Bomb-Scarred Party Towns of Southeast Asia
    • Written by: Patrick Winn
    • Narrated by: Patrick Winn
    • Length: 13 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 2019-11-19
    • Language: English
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    • Essential to understanding Southeast Asia in the 21st century, Hello, Shadowlands reveals a booming underworld of organised crime across a region in flux....

    Price: $18.79 or 1 Credit

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    • The Rob Ford Story
    • Written by: Robyn Doolittle
    • Narrated by: Erin Bennett
    • Length: 10 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 2015-12-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • His drug- and alcohol-fueled antics made world headlines and engulfed a city in unprecedented controversy....

    Price: $32.38 or 1 Credit

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    • Two Parties and a Funeral - Plus, Plenty of Valet Parking! - in America’s Gilded Capital
    • Written by: Mark Leibovich
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 11 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 2013-07-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • The New York Times' Mark Leibovich, presents a blistering, penetrating, jaw-dropping - and often hysterical - look at Washington’s incestuous "media industrial complex"....

    Price: $20.40 or 1 Credit

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    • Written by: Eamonn McCann
    • Narrated by: Eamonn McCann
    • Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 2018-11-27
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Eamonn McCann’s account of what it is like to grow up a Catholic in a Northern Irish ghetto - first published in 1974 - quickly became a classic account of the feelings generated by British rule....

    Price: $31.26 or 1 Credit

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    • Africa’s Leading University in Decline
    • Written by: David Benatar
    • Narrated by: Martyn Swain
    • Length: 14 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 2022-12-12
    • Language: English
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    • Destructive forces have been eroding the University of Cape Town, Africa’s leading university. This audiobook tells the sad, true tale of what has been transpiring....

    Price: $31.26 or 1 Credit

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    • My Son's Murder in Laramie, and a World Transformed
    • Written by: Judy Shepard
    • Narrated by: Judy Shepard
    • Length: 5 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 2009-08-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • The mother of Matthew Shepard shares her story about her son's death and the choice she made to become an international gay rights activist....

    Price: $23.31 or 1 Credit

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    • Life and Death in a Tibetan Town
    • Written by: Barbara Demick
    • Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
    • Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 2020-07-28
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • A gripping portrait of modern Tibet told through the lives of its people, from the best-selling author of Nothing to Envy....

    Price: $23.31 or 1 Credit

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    • One Town's Fight over Race and Identity, and the New War for America's Classrooms
    • Written by: Mike Hixenbaugh
    • Narrated by: Mike Hixenbaugh
    • Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 2024-05-14
    • Language: English
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    • The urgent, revelatory story of how a school board win for the conservative right in one Texas suburb inspired a Christian nationalist campaign now threatening to undermine public education in America.

    Price: $27.96 or 1 Credit

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    • Life, Death, and Dollars in a Small American Town
    • Written by: Brian Alexander
    • Narrated by: Nick Landrum
    • Length: 14 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 2021-03-09
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • The Hospital is an intimate, heart-wrenching portrait of one small hospital that reveals the magnitude of America’s health care crises....

    Price: $32.04 or 1 Credit

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    • One Town's Passage from Trauma to Hope
    • Written by: Gail Sheehy
    • Narrated by: Sandra Burr
    • Length: 17 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 2008-10-24
    • Language: English
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    • Middletown, America is a story of recovery and of the ways people finally learn to deal with seemingly insurmountable grief and an incomprehensible physical and financial disaster....

    Price: $32.00 or 1 Credit

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    • Reckoning with What Remains
    • Written by: Kerri Arsenault
    • Narrated by: Kerri Arsenault
    • Length: 12 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 2020-09-01
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Kerri Arsenault grew up in the rural working class town of Mexico, Maine. For over 100 years, the community orbited around a paper mill that employs most townspeople, including three generations of Arsenault’s own family....

    Price: $26.21 or 1 Credit

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    • The Explosive Beginning of School Desegregation
    • Written by: Rachel Louise Martin
    • Narrated by: Janina Edwards, Megan Tusing
    • Length: 10 hrs
    • Release date: 2023-06-13
    • Language: English
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    • In graduate school, Rachel Martin was sent to a small town in the foothills of the Appalachians, where locals wanted to build a museum to commemorate the events of September 1956, when Clinton High School became the first school in the former Confederacy to attempt court mandated desegregation....

    Price: $25.24 or 1 Credit

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    • Reading and Redemption in a Town Under Siege
    • Written by: Mike Thomson
    • Narrated by: David Rintoul
    • Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 2019-08-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • The remarkable, improbable story of a small, makeshift library in the Syrian town of Darayya, and the people who found hope and humanity in its books during the four-year siege they endured....

    Price: $28.27 or 1 Credit

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    • The 1% Economy and the Shattering of the All-American Town
    • Written by: Brian Alexander
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 2017-04-11
    • Language: English
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    • The Anchor Hocking Glass Company, once the world's largest maker of glass tableware, was the base on which Lancaster's society was built....

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    • Mary Church Terrell and the Struggle for Racial Justice in the Nation's Capital
    • Written by: Joan Quigley
    • Narrated by: Kate Reading
    • Length: 13 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 2020-01-21
    • Language: English
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    • In Just Another Southern Town, Joan Quigley recounts an untold chapter of the civil rights movement: an epic battle to topple segregation in Washington, the symbolic home of American democracy. At the book’s heart, the formidable Mary Church Terrell and the test case she mounts....

    Price: $23.14 or 1 Credit

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