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Bestsellers
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Poverty, by America
- De: Matthew Desmond
- Narrado por: Dion Graham
- Duración: 5 h y 40 m
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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 testimonial based on facts and witness
- De Alonzo Nightjar en 03-27-23
De: Matthew Desmond
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Hillbilly Elegy
- A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
- De: J. D. Vance
- Narrado por: J. D. Vance
- Duración: 6 h y 49 m
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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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In Mamaw's Contradictions Lay Great Wisdom
- De Cynthia en 11-20-16
De: J. D. Vance
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Evicted
- Poverty and Profit in the American City
- De: Matthew Desmond
- Narrado por: Dion Graham
- Duración: 11 h y 3 m
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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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Former Property Manager
- De Charla en 05-18-16
De: Matthew Desmond
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Rough Sleepers
- Dr. Jim O’Connell’s Urgent Mission to Bring Healing to Homeless People
- De: Tracy Kidder
- Narrado por: Tracy Kidder
- Duración: 8 h y 41 m
- Versión completa
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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 honesty
- De jim d metzker en 05-17-24
De: Tracy Kidder
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Maid
- Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive
- De: Stephanie Land, Barbara Ehrenreich - foreword
- Narrado por: Stephanie Land
- Duración: 8 h y 34 m
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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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Very engaging
- De NMwritergal en 01-24-19
De: Stephanie Land, y otros
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When Helping Hurts
- How to Alleviate Poverty Without Hurting the Poor...and Yourself
- De: Steve Corbett, Brian Fikkert
- Narrado por: Brendan Hunter
- Duración: 9 h y 13 m
- Versión completa
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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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A must read
- De Diana Kamidi en 07-31-21
De: Steve Corbett, y otros
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Poverty, by America
- De: Matthew Desmond
- Narrado por: Dion Graham
- Duración: 5 h y 40 m
- Versión completa
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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 testimonial based on facts and witness
- De Alonzo Nightjar en 03-27-23
De: Matthew Desmond
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Hillbilly Elegy
- A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
- De: J. D. Vance
- Narrado por: J. D. Vance
- Duración: 6 h y 49 m
- Versión completa
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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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In Mamaw's Contradictions Lay Great Wisdom
- De Cynthia en 11-20-16
De: J. D. Vance
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Evicted
- Poverty and Profit in the American City
- De: Matthew Desmond
- Narrado por: Dion Graham
- Duración: 11 h y 3 m
- Versión completa
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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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Former Property Manager
- De Charla en 05-18-16
De: Matthew Desmond
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Rough Sleepers
- Dr. Jim O’Connell’s Urgent Mission to Bring Healing to Homeless People
- De: Tracy Kidder
- Narrado por: Tracy Kidder
- Duración: 8 h y 41 m
- Versión completa
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General
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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 honesty
- De jim d metzker en 05-17-24
De: Tracy Kidder
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Maid
- Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive
- De: Stephanie Land, Barbara Ehrenreich - foreword
- Narrado por: Stephanie Land
- Duración: 8 h y 34 m
- Versión completa
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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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Very engaging
- De NMwritergal en 01-24-19
De: Stephanie Land, y otros
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When Helping Hurts
- How to Alleviate Poverty Without Hurting the Poor...and Yourself
- De: Steve Corbett, Brian Fikkert
- Narrado por: Brendan Hunter
- Duración: 9 h y 13 m
- Versión completa
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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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A must read
- De Diana Kamidi en 07-31-21
De: Steve Corbett, y otros
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Invisible Child
- Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City
- De: Andrea Elliott
- Narrado por: Adenrele Ojo
- Duración: 21 h y 10 m
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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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Narration is completely over the top
- De Heather en 10-14-21
De: Andrea Elliott
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Homelessness Is a Housing Problem
- How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns
- De: Gregg Colburn, Clayton Page Aldern
- Narrado por: Adam Verner
- Duración: 6 h y 22 m
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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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NO PDF! NO CHARTS!
- De P. Dean en 06-02-23
De: Gregg Colburn, y otros
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Behind the Beautiful Forevers
- Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
- De: Katherine Boo
- Narrado por: Sunil Malhotra
- Duración: 8 h y 16 m
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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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An Antidote for Shantaram
- De Dr. en 06-14-12
De: Katherine Boo
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If You See Them
- Young, Unhoused, and Alone in America.
- De: Vicki Sokolik
- Narrado por: Yinka Ladeinde, Jose Nateras, Wendy Tremont King
- Duración: 12 h y 35 m
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A moving exploration of the crisis of homeless youth—told through the inspiring stories of a woman on the frontlines and the kids themselves.
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Not what I thought it would be
- De Angel I. en 04-07-24
De: Vicki Sokolik
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The Great Displacement
- Climate Change and the Next American Migration
- De: Jake Bittle
- Narrado por: Matt Godfrey
- Duración: 10 h y 26 m
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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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Where we're headed
- De Dr. Stuart A. Blair en 03-09-23
De: Jake Bittle
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A Framework for Understanding Poverty
- A Cognitive Approach (Sixth Edition)
- De: Ruby K. Payne PhD
- Narrado por: Ruby K. Payne
- Duración: 6 h y 12 m
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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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Understanding your Community.
- De bigronald8 en 10-07-19
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Beneath the Neon: Life and Death in the Tunnels of Las Vegas
- De: Matthew O'Brien
- Narrado por: Alan Carlson
- Duración: 7 h y 26 m
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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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Get really inside Las Vegas
- De cosmitron en 07-08-18
De: Matthew O'Brien
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Thirst
- A Story of Redemption, Compassion, and a Mission to Bring Clean Water to the World
- De: Scott Harrison, Lisa Sweetingham - contributor
- Narrado por: Scott Harrison
- Duración: 10 h y 14 m
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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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Inspiring!
- De April Ackroyd en 10-07-18
De: Scott Harrison, y otros
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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
- De: Ron Hall, Denver Moore, Lynn Vincent - contributor
- Narrado por: Daniel Butler, Barry Scott
- Duración: 9 h y 59 m
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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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Stays with me...
- De Rebekah Sue Carolla en 09-23-18
De: Ron Hall, y otros
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Excluded
- How Snob Zoning, NIMBYism, and Class Bias Build the Walls We Don't See
- De: Richard D. Kahlenberg
- Narrado por: Graham Winton
- Duración: 9 h y 32 m
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An indictment of America's housing policy, Excluded reveals the social engineering underlying our segregation by economic class, the social and political fallout that result, and what we can do about it....
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Everyone should read
- De P Willis en 09-17-23
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Random Family
- Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx
- De: Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
- Narrado por: Roxana Ortega
- Duración: 20 h y 7 m
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In her extraordinary best seller, Adrian Nicole LeBlanc immerses listeners in the intricacies of the ghetto, revealing the true sagas lurking behind the headlines of gangsta glamour….
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The narrator ruined this book.
- De Ryan Martin en 10-21-18
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The Corner
- A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood
- De: David Simon, Edward Burns
- Narrado por: Dion Graham, David Simon
- Duración: 25 h y 28 m
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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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Insightful. A Must Read For Suburban Americans.
- De WitchCrafter en 06-01-21
De: David Simon, y otros
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Great Society
- A New History
- De: Amity Shlaes
- Narrado por: Terence Aselford
- Duración: 17 h y 45 m
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The New York Times best-selling author of The Forgotten Man and Coolidge offers a stunning revision of our last great period of idealism, the 1960s, with burning relevance for our contemporary challenges....
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How have we forgotten how bad these ideas were?
- De Robert S. Allen en 02-09-20
De: Amity Shlaes
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Teeth
- The Story of Beauty, Inequality, and the Struggle for Oral Health in America
- De: Mary Otto
- Narrado por: Suehyla El'Attar
- Duración: 9 h y 37 m
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Teeth takes listeners on a disturbing journey into America's silent epidemic of oral disease, exposing the hidden connections between tooth decay and stunted job prospects....
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Content everyone should know; dismal narration
- De Elaine en 08-04-17
De: Mary Otto
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A Place Called Home
- A Memoir
- De: David Ambroz
- Narrado por: David Ambroz
- Duración: 12 h y 8 m
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There are millions of homeless children in America today and in A Place Called Home, award-winning child welfare advocate David Ambroz writes about growing up homeless in New York for eleven years and his subsequent years in foster care....
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Very heart wrenching read, BUT
- De Everest Mom en 01-14-23
De: David Ambroz
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When We Walk By
- Forgotten Humanity, Broken Systems, and the Role We Can Each Play in Ending Homelessness in America
- De: Kevin F. Adler, Donald W. Burnes, Amanda Banh - contributor, y otros
- Narrado por: Kevin F. Adler
- Duración: 9 h y 17 m
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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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When We Walk By
- De Anonymous User en 05-26-24
De: Kevin F. Adler, y otros
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Bridges Out of Poverty
- Strategies for Professionals and Communities
- De: Philip E. DeVol, Ruby K. Payne, Terie Dreussi Smith
- Narrado por: Tom Blair, Philip DeVol
- Duración: 6 h y 44 m
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Bridges Out of Poverty is a unique and powerful tool designed specifically for social, health, and legal services professionals....
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Couldn't pause, awesome approach to bridging the gap.
- De Lamar en 08-28-16
De: Philip E. DeVol, y otros
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The Meth Lunches
- Food and Longing in an American City
- De: Kim Foster
- Narrado por: Sara Sheckells
- Duración: 12 h y 55 m
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Kim Foster peers behind the polished visions of perfectly curated dinners and charming families to reveal the complex reality when poverty and food intersect....
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well written
- De Bri en 05-07-24
De: Kim Foster
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The Injustice of Place
- Uncovering the Legacy of Poverty in America
- De: Kathryn J. Edin, H. Luke Shaefer, Timothy J. Nelson
- Narrado por: Janina Edwards
- Duración: 9 h y 55 m
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Three of the nation’s top scholars – known for tackling key mysteries about poverty in America – turn their attention from the country’s poorest people to its poorest places....
De: Kathryn J. Edin, y otros
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Hand to Mouth
- Living in Bootstrap America
- De: Linda Tirado
- Narrado por: Linda Tirado
- Duración: 4 h y 24 m
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We in America have certain ideas of what it means to be poor. Linda Tirado, in her signature brutally honest yet personable voice, takes all of these preconceived notions and smashes them to bits....
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Buy the written copy, NOT the audio by the author
- De Jacqueline en 12-30-14
De: Linda Tirado
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Poor
- Grit, Courage, and the Life-Changing Value of Self-Belief
- De: Katriona O'Sullivan
- Narrado por: Katriona O'Sullivan
- Duración: 6 h y 48 m
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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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Great listen
- De Anonymous User en 08-21-23
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If You Really Want to Help
- Redefining the War on Poverty
- De: Kurt Kandler, Bethany Bradsher
- Narrado por: Kurt Kandler
- Duración: 5 h y 59 m
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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.
De: Kurt Kandler, y otros
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So You Want to Solve Homelessness? Start Here
- De: Andrew Hening
- Narrado por: Nate Wilson
- Duración: 5 h y 49 m
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In 2010, Andrew Hening threw everything he owned in the trunk of his car and drove across the country to the San Francisco Bay Area to join the movement to end homelessness....
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Powerful Content
- De N. Anderson en 02-21-24
De: Andrew Hening
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Tightrope
- Americans Reaching for Hope
- De: Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn
- Narrado por: Jennifer Garner, Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn
- Duración: 9 h y 43 m
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With stark poignancy and political dispassion, Tightrope draws us deep into an "other America". The authors tell this story, in part, through the lives of some of the children with whom Kristof grew up in rural Yamhill, Oregon....
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Conservatives hate liberals will love
- De vic en 02-03-20
De: Nicholas D. Kristof, y otros