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 391 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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    • The Story of My Life
    • Written by: Iceberg Slim
    • Narrated by: Cary Hite
    • Length: 11 hrs and 15 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....

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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 Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America
    • Written by: Alex Kotlowitz
    • Narrated by: Dion Graham
    • Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 2010-04-30
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • This New York Public Library selection as one of the 150 most important books of the 20th century is a true-life portrait of growing up in the Chicago projects....

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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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    • Local Politics and Inequality in American Cities
    • Written by: Jessica Trounstine
    • Narrated by: Rebecca Gibel
    • Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 2021-02-09
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Segregation by Design draws on more than 100 years of quantitative and qualitative data from thousands of American cities to explore how local governments generate race and class segregation....

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    • Secrets of Your Man’s Mind Revealed
    • Written by: Tyrese Gibson, Rev Run
    • Narrated by: Cary Hite
    • Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 2016-10-24
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Manology will help you weed out the cheaters, manipulators, and pimps from the good men, and it will give you the tools to know if your man is the marrying kind....

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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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    • 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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    • Searching for Tupac Shakur
    • Written by: Michael Eric Dyson
    • Narrated by: Cary Hite
    • Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 2011-06-29
    • Language: English
    • 1.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Tupac Amaru Shakur (1971–1996) was an American rap artist, actor, and social activist....

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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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    • Schools, Police, and the Criminalization of Latino Youth
    • Written by: Victor M. Rios
    • Narrated by: A.T. Chandler
    • Length: 6 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 2017-04-11
    • Language: English
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    • At 15, Victor Rios found himself a human target - flat on his ass amid a hail of shotgun fire, desperate for money and a place on the street....

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    • Race, Real Estate, and the Making of Hasidic Williamsburg
    • Written by: Nathaniel Deutsch, Michael Casper
    • Narrated by: Steven Jay Cohen
    • Length: 13 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 2021-05-11
    • Language: English
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    • Nathaniel Deutsch and Michael Casper unravel the fascinating history of how a community of determined Holocaust survivors encountered, shaped, and sometimes fiercely resisted the urban processes that transformed their gritty neighborhood....

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    • How Floating Nations Will Restore the Environment, Enrich the Poor, Cure the Sick, and Liberate Humanity from Politicians
    • Written by: Joe Quirk, Patri Friedman
    • Narrated by: Sean Pratt
    • Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 2017-03-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Oil platforms and cruise ships already inhabit the waters; now it's time to take the next step to full-fledged ocean civilizations....

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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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    • Written by: Gail de Vos
    • Narrated by: Kelly Burke
    • Length: 13 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 2024-11-12
    • Language: English
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    • A comprehensive and entertaining collection of urban legends from around the world, with a history and analysis of the origin of each tale, The Watkins Book of Urban Legends is compiled by a leading authority in the field.

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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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