Urban Studies

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    • Written by: Catherine Hernandez
    • Narrated by: Catherine Hernandez
    • Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 2018-04-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 393 ratings
    • In Scarborough, a low-income urban neighborhood, three kids struggle to rise above poverty, abuse, and a system that consistently fails them....

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    • A Study in Brimstone
    • Written by: G. S. Denning
    • Narrated by: Robert Garson
    • Series: Warlock Holmes, Book 1
    • Length: 9 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 2016-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • Sherlock Holmes is an unparalleled genius who uses the gift of deduction and reason to solve the most vexing of crimes. Warlock Holmes, however, is an idiot.

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    • 60 Years of Bright Lights and Back Alleys... and Baseball
    • Written by: Robert Whiting
    • Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
    • Length: 11 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 2021-06-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Tokyo Junkie is a memoir that plays out over the dramatic 60-year growth of the megacity Tokyo, once a dark, fetid backwater and now the most populous, sophisticated, and safe urban capital in the world....

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    • The Chronicles of Ixia, Book 2
    • Written by: Maria V. Snyder
    • Narrated by: Kristin Atherton
    • Series: The Chronicles of Ixia, Book 2
    • Length: 14 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 2024-02-13
    • Language: English
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    • After the discovery of her magical abilities leads to her execution being ordered, Yelena has no choice but to flee to Sitia, her long-lost birthplace. There, she has the chance to meet the family she never knew....

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    • The Story of My Life
    • Written by: Iceberg Slim
    • Narrated by: Cary Hite
    • Length: 11 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 2011-05-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 227 ratings
    • A blueprint. A bible. What Sun Tzu’s Art of War was to ancient China, Pimp is to the streets. As real as you can get without jumping in, this is the story of Iceberg Slim’s life as he saw, felt, tasted, and smelled it.

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    • Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America
    • Written by: Khalil Gibran Muhammad
    • Narrated by: Mirron Willis
    • Length: 12 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 2017-08-01
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • 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....

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    • The Women Shaping the World's Next Superpower
    • Written by: Roseann Lake
    • Narrated by: Janet Song
    • Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 2018-02-13
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Forty years ago in China, marriage was universal, compulsory, and a woman's only means to a livelihood. Enter the one-child policy, which despite its horrors, resulted in China's first generations of urban only-daughters - girls who were raised without brothers....

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    • The Chronicles of Ixia, Book 3
    • Written by: Maria V. Snyder
    • Narrated by: Kristin Atherton
    • Series: The Chronicles of Ixia, Book 3
    • Length: 14 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 2024-03-12
    • Language: English
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    • When word that Yelena is a Soulfinder—able to capture and release souls—spreads like wildfire, she faces mistrust and fear in Sitia. What’s more, she keeps discovering unusual new sides of her abilities. As the Council debates Yelena’s fate, she receives a disturbing message....

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    • A Handbook for Personal and Planetary Transformation Based on the Hawaiian Way of the Adventurer
    • Written by: Serge Kahili King
    • Narrated by: Paul Brion
    • Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 2020-03-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • The first practical guide to applying the ancient healing art of Hawaiian shamanism to our modern lives....

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    • Written by: Maria V. Snyder
    • Narrated by: Raphael Corkhill
    • Series: The Chronicles of Ixia
    • Length: 12 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 2023-04-04
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • As Chief of Security of Ixia, Valek has spent the last 15 years keeping Commander Ambrose and his citizens safe. With his complex network of spies, informers, and soldiers, it’s his job to hunt down and capture criminals, including the intriguing Yelena....

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    • A Study in Shadows, Book 2
    • Written by: Sara C. Roethle
    • Narrated by: Kim Bretton
    • Series: A Study in Shadows, Book 2
    • Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 2023-03-21
    • Language: English
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    • When another ancient is murdered, Lyssandra alone cannot resist Asher’s call. Aiding him means going against the Potentate’s direct orders, and she won’t bring Steifan and Tholdri down with her. But the murder isn’t the only problem....

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    • The Rise and Fall of Big Meech and the Black Mafia Family
    • Written by: Mara Shalhoup
    • Narrated by: L. Steven Taylor
    • Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 2019-06-25
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • In the early 1990s, Demetrius "Big Meech" Flenory and his brother, Terry "Southwest T", rose up from the slums of Detroit to build one of the largest cocaine empires in American history: the Black Mafia Family....

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    • Written by: Maria V. Snyder
    • Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
    • Series: The Chronicles of Ixia, Book 5
    • Length: 11 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 2016-01-26
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • Ever since being kidnapped from the Illiais Jungle as a child, Yelena Zaltana's life has been fraught with peril. But the recent loss of her Soulfinding abilities has endangered her....

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    • Written by: Maria V. Snyder
    • Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
    • Series: The Chronicles of Ixia, Book 6
    • Length: 12 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 2017-01-31
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 24 ratings
    • Despite the odds, Yelena and Valek have forged an irrevocable bond - and a family - that transcends borders. Now, when their two homelands stand on the brink of war....

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    • How the City of Ideas Created the Modern World
    • Written by: Richard Cockett
    • Narrated by: Gareth Richards
    • Length: 14 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 2023-12-26
    • Language: English
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    • Richard Cockett gives us the entirety of an extraordinary story of how one city made the modern world—and how we all remain inescapably Viennese....

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    • Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval
    • Written by: Saidiya Hartman
    • Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
    • Length: 10 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 2019-04-09
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • Saidiya Hartman examines the revolution of black intimate life that unfolded in Philadelphia and New York at the beginning of the 20th century. Free love, common-law and transient marriages, queer relations, and single motherhood were among the sweeping changes....

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    • The Remarkable History of the Lagoon City
    • Written by: Dennis Romano
    • Narrated by: David Colacci
    • Length: 30 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 2024-02-27
    • Language: English
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    • No city stirs the imagination more than Venice. From the richly ornamented palaces emerging from the waters of the Grand Canal to the dazzling sites of Piazza San Marco, visitors and residents alike sense they are entering, as fourteenth-century poet Petrarch remarked, “another world.”....

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    • Living and Thriving in an Age of Isolation
    • Written by: Edward Glaeser, David Cutler
    • Narrated by: Edward Glaeser, David Cutler, Teri Schnaubelt
    • Length: 12 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 2021-09-07
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • One of our great urbanists and one of our great public health experts join forces to reckon with how cities are changing in the face of existential threats the pandemic has only accelerated....

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