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- The Death and Life of an American Small Town
- De: Nick Reding
- Narrado por: Mark Boyett
- Duración: 9 h y 24 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 884
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 471
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 477
Crystal methamphetamine is widely considered to be the most dangerous drug in the world, and nowhere is that more true than in the small towns of the American heartland. Methland tells the story of Oelwein, Iowa (pop. 6,159), which, like thousands of other small towns across the country, has been left in the dust by the consolidation of the agricultural industry, a depressed local economy, and an out-migration of people.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Beautifully written, but insubstantial
- De Flavius Krakdaddius en 02-10-10
De: Nick Reding
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Full Body Burden
- Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats
- De: Kristen Iversen
- Narrado por: Kirsten Potter, Kristen Iversen
- Duración: 13 h y 53 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 221
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 197
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 199
Kristen Iversen grew up in a small Colorado town close to Rocky Flats, a secret nuclear weapons plant once designated "the most contaminated site in America." Full Body Burden is the story of a childhood and adolescence in the shadow of the Cold War, in a landscape at once startlingly beautiful and--unknown to those who lived there--tainted with invisible yet deadly particles of plutonium.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A story that no one else wanted to tell.
- De Carol en 01-28-13
De: Kristen Iversen
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Paradise Falls
- The True Story of an Environmental Catastrophe
- De: Keith O'Brien
- Narrado por: Eileen Stevens
- Duración: 13 h y 5 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 86
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 70
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 70
Lois Gibbs, Luella Kenny, and other mothers loved their neighborhood on the east side of Niagara Falls. It had an elementary school, a playground, and rows of affordable homes. In the spring of 1977, pungent odors began to seep into these little houses, and it didn’t take long for worried mothers to identify the curious scent. It was the sickly-sweet smell of chemicals.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Informative!
- De Amazon Customer en 04-20-24
De: Keith O'Brien
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The King of California
- J.G. Boswell and the Making of a Secret American Empire
- De: Mark Arax, Rick Wartzman
- Narrado por: James Patrick Cronin
- Duración: 19 h y 29 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 162
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 136
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 138
J. G. Boswell was the biggest farmer in America. He built a secret empire while thumbing his nose at nature, politicians, labor unions, and every journalist who ever tried to lift the veil on the ultimate "factory in the fields". The King of California is the previously untold account of how a Georgia slave-owning family migrated to California in the early 1920s, drained one of America 's biggest lakes in an act of incredible hubris and carved out the richest cotton empire in the world.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Interesting story of California Ag history
- De Jean en 08-11-14
De: Mark Arax, y otros
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The Chain
- Farm, Factory, and the Fate of Our Food
- De: Ted Genoways
- Narrado por: Michael Kramer
- Duración: 8 h y 29 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 31
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 31
Interviewing scores of line workers, union leaders, hog farmers, and local politicians and activists, Genoways reveals an industry pushed to its breaking point. Along the way, he exposes alarming new trends: sick or permanently disabled workers, abused animals, water and soil pollution, and mounting conflict between small towns and immigrant labor.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Writing, Performance and Content
- De Kevin S. Grail en 09-29-19
De: Ted Genoways
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The Unwinding
- An Inner History of the New America
- De: George Packer
- Narrado por: Robert Fass
- Duración: 18 h y 4 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 931
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 798
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 804
In The Unwinding, George Packer, author of The Assassins’ Gate: America in Iraq, tells the story of the United States over the past three decades in an utterly original way, with his characteristically sharp eye for detail and gift for weaving together complex narratives. The Unwinding portrays a superpower in danger of coming apart at the seams, its elites no longer elite, its institutions no longer working, its ordinary people left to improvise their own schemes for success and salvation.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Can't understand the low ratings!
- De Janet Pittman Henley en 05-27-13
De: George Packer
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Strange Stones
- De: Peter Hessler
- Narrado por: George Backman
- Duración: 13 h y 38 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 157
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 135
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 138
Full of unforgettable figures and an unrelenting spirit of adventure, Strange Stones is a far-ranging, thought-provoking collection of Peter Hessler’s best reportage - a dazzling display of the powerful storytelling, shrewd cultural insight, and warm sense of humor that are the trademarks of his work. Over the last decade, as a staff writer for The New Yorker and the author of three books, Peter Hessler has lived in Asia and the United States, writing as both native and knowledgeable outsider in these two very different regions.
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4 out of 5 stars
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funny, entertaining
- De Katherine en 08-02-13
De: Peter Hessler
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Strangers in Their Own Land
- Anger and Mourning on the American Right
- De: Arlie Russell Hochschild
- Narrado por: Suzanne Toren
- Duración: 11 h y 14 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,846
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,625
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,609
In Strangers in Their Own Land, the renowned sociologist Arlie Hochschild embarks on a thought-provoking journey from her liberal hometown of Berkeley, California, deep into Louisiana bayou country - a stronghold of the conservative right. As she gets to know people who strongly oppose many of the ideas she famously champions, Hochschild nevertheless finds common ground and quickly warms to the people she meets.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Performance undercuts thesis
- De married, one tall dog, one smelly dog en 01-02-17
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The Boys in the Bunkhouse
- Servitude and Salvation in the Heartland
- De: Dan Barry
- Narrado por: Fred Sanders
- Duración: 9 h y 44 m
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 72
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 73
In the tiny Iowa farm town of Atalissa, dozens of men, all with intellectual disabilities and all from Texas, lived in an old schoolhouse. Before dawn each morning, they were bussed to a nearby processing plant, where they eviscerated turkeys in return for food, lodging, and $65 a month. They lived in near servitude for more than 30 years, enduring increasing neglect, exploitation, and physical and emotional abuse.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Our Brothers' Keepers?
- De Gillian en 12-01-16
De: Dan Barry
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Rez Life
- An Indian's Journey Through Reservation Life
- De: David Treuer
- Narrado por: Peter Berkrot
- Duración: 10 h y 51 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 121
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 104
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 103
Celebrated novelist David Treuer has gained a reputation for writing fiction that expands the horizons of Native American literature. In Rez Life, his first full-length work of nonfiction, Treuer brings a novelist's storytelling skill and an eye for detail to a complex and subtle examination of Native American reservation life, past and present. With authoritative research and reportage, Treuer illuminates misunderstood contemporary issues of sovereignty, treaty rights, and natural-resource conservation.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Rez Life needs a Rez voice not a Suyapi narrator..
- De Deaxkaash en 09-11-13
De: David Treuer
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The Dinosaur Artist
- Obsession, Betrayal, and the Quest for Earth's Ultimate Trophy
- De: Paige Williams
- Narrado por: Ellen Archer
- Duración: 12 h y 26 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 143
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 129
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 129
In this 2018 New York Times Notable Book,Paige Williams "does for fossils what Susan Orlean did for orchids" (Book Riot) in her account of one Florida man's attempt to sell a dinosaur skeleton from Mongolia—a story "steeped in natural history, human nature, commerce, crime, science, and politics" (Rebecca Skloot).
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2 out of 5 stars
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More filler than Joan Rivers’ face.
- De Brandi en 03-13-19
De: Paige Williams
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Humboldt
- Life on America's Marijuana Frontier
- De: Emily Brady
- Narrado por: Dan Woren, Sonny Warner, Erin Bennett, y otros
- Duración: 7 h y 29 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 70
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 59
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 58
In the vein of Susan Orlean's The Orchid Thief and Deborah Feldman's Unorthodox, journalist Emily Brady journeys into a secretive subculture - one that marijuana built. Say the words "Humboldt County" to a stranger and you might receive a knowing grin. The name is infamous, and yet the place, and its inhabitants, have been nearly impenetrable. Until now. Humboldt is a narrative exploration of an insular community in Northern California, which for nearly 40 years has existed primarily on the cultivation and sale of marijuana.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great book!
- De David en 02-26-15
De: Emily Brady
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Where I Was From
- De: Joan Didion
- Narrado por: Gabrielle De Cuir
- Duración: 6 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 163
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 139
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 136
In her moving and insightful new book, Joan Didion reassesses parts of her life, her work, her history and ours. A native Californian, Didion applies her scalpel-like intelligence to the state’s ethic of ruthless self-sufficiency in order to examine that ethic’s often tenuous relationship to reality. Combining history and reportage, memoir and literary criticism, Where I Was From explores California’s romances with land and water; its unacknowledged debts to railroads, aerospace, and big government; the disjunction between its code of individualism and its fetish for prisons.
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4 out of 5 stars
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California belongs to Joan Didion.
- De Darwin8u en 11-04-15
De: Joan Didion
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Glass House
- The 1% Economy and the Shattering of the All-American Town
- De: Brian Alexander
- Narrado por: Bob Souer
- Duración: 11 h y 7 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 104
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 90
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 90
The Anchor Hocking Glass Company, once the world's largest maker of glass tableware, was the base on which Lancaster's society was built. As Glass House unfolds, bankruptcy looms. With access to the company and its leaders, and Lancaster's citizens, Alexander shows how financial engineering took hold in the 1980s, accelerated in the 21st century, and wrecked the company.
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5 out of 5 stars
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What really happened to the American Dream?
- De Bill en 05-10-17
De: Brian Alexander
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Napa
- De: James Conaway
- Narrado por: John Morgan
- Duración: 20 h y 29 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 120
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 94
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 93
James Conaway's remarkable bestseller delves into the heart of California's lush and verdant Napa Valley, also known as America's Eden. Long the source of succulent grapes and singular wines, this region is also the setting for the remarkable true saga of the personalities behind the winemaking empires. This is the story of Gallos and Mondavis, of fortunes made and lost, of dynasties and destinies.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Excellent But Marred by Non-Stop Mispronunciations
- De Robert R. en 08-15-13
De: James Conaway
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The Boom
- How Fracking Ignited the American Energy Revolution and Changed the World
- De: Russell Gold
- Narrado por: Patrick Lawlor
- Duración: 11 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 250
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 209
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 210
Russell Gold, a brilliant and dogged investigative reporter at The Wall Street Journal, has spent more than a decade reporting on one of the biggest stories of our time: the spectacular, world-changing rise of "fracking". Recognized as a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and a recipient of the Gerald Loeb Award for his work, Gold has traveled along the pipelines and into the hubs of this country’s energy infrastructure; he has visited frack sites from Texas to North Dakota; and he has conducted thousands of interviews with engineers and wildcatters, CEOs and roughnecks, environmentalists and politicians.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Somehow the author manages to stay balanced
- De Emily C en 05-28-14
De: Russell Gold
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Sellout
- How Washington Gave Away America's Technological Soul, and One Man's Fight to Bring It Home
- De: Victoria Bruce
- Narrado por: Tom Parks
- Duración: 10 h y 44 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 33
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 33
American technological prowess used to be unrivaled. But because of globalization, and with the blessing of the US government, once proprietary materials, components, and technologies are increasingly commercialized outside the United States. Nowhere is this more dangerous than in China's monopoly of rare earth elements - materials that are essential for nearly all modern consumer goods, gadgets, and weapons systems.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Uncovering unsung heroes of modern America
- De Ben DeNardo en 08-24-17
De: Victoria Bruce
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The first book to appear in the illustrious Oxford History of the United States, this critically-acclaimed volume - a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize - offers an unsurpassed history of the Revolutionary War and the birth of the American republic.
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When painter Winslow Homer first sailed into the Gulf of Mexico, he was struck by its "special kind of providence." Indeed, the Gulf presented itself as America's sea - bound by geography, culture, and tradition to the national experience - and yet, there has never been a comprehensive history of the Gulf until now. And so, in this rich and original work that explores the Gulf through our human connection with the sea, environmental historian Jack E. Davis finally places this exceptional region into the American mythos in a sweeping history that extends from the Pleistocene age to the 21st century.
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Decolonize gulf history
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Ghettoside
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On a warm spring evening in South Los Angeles, a young man is shot and killed on a sidewalk minutes away from his home, one of the thousands of Black Americans murdered that year. His assailant runs down the street, jumps into an SUV, and vanishes, hoping to join the scores of killers in American cities who are never arrested for their crimes. But as soon as the case is assigned to Detective John Skaggs, the odds shift.
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Wish I liked it more
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Invisible Child
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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. In this sweeping narrative, Elliott weaves the story of Dasani’s childhood with the history of her ancestors, tracing their passage from slavery to the Great Migration north. As Dasani comes of age, New York City’s homeless crisis has exploded, deepening the chasm between rich and poor. She must guide her siblings through a world riddled by hunger, violence, racism, drug addiction, and the threat of foster care.
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This New York Times best seller is a thrilling account of one of the most pivotal moments in United States history. Six months after the Declaration of Independence, America was nearly defeated. Then on Christmas night, George Washington led his men across the Delaware River to destroy the Hessians at Trenton. A week later Americans held off a counterattack, and in a brilliant tactical move, Washington crept behind the British army to win another victory. The momentum had reversed.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Particularly Good Military History
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Evicted
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- De: Matthew Desmond
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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. Hailed as “wrenching and revelatory” (The Nation), “vivid and unsettling” (New York Review of Books), Evicted transforms our understanding of poverty and economic exploitation while providing fresh ideas for solving one of twenty-first-century America’s most devastating problems. Its unforgettable scenes of hope and loss remind us of the centrality of home, without which nothing else is possible.
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Blood in the Water
- The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy
- De: Heather Ann Thompson
- Narrado por: Erin Bennett
- Duración: 22 h y 46 m
- Versión completa
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On September 9, 1971, nearly 1,300 prisoners took over the Attica Correctional Facility in upstate New York to protest years of mistreatment. Holding guards and civilian employees hostage, the prisoners negotiated with officials for improved conditions during the four long days and nights that followed. On September 13, the state abruptly sent hundreds of heavily armed troopers and correction officers to retake the prison by force. Their gunfire killed 39 men - hostages as well as prisoners.
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Tragic Events, Well-Told
- De David en 10-27-17
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Amity and Prosperity
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- Nicole Fields
- 07-21-18
Compelling writing and story
This book is written like a novel though it is a reporter’s coverage of the effects of the fracking industry in Pennsylvania. The reader’s voice took me a while to get used to, and the story itself carried me beyond my initial annoyance with her tone. This story is heart rending and brings to our awareness the prices that some pay for our privilege. I highly recommend this author and this book.
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- Alana
- 10-24-20
Eye Opening
As a local Pennsylvanian, this was extraordinarily educational of real world problems faced by real people. these are the facts that are kept from us, those which we need as American citizens to be aware of. Wonderful narration, very heartfelt
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- Cin
- 10-09-20
A scary story
These circumstances, I feel, could have happened to any struggling family in America. Honest, well-meaning families taken in and taken advantage of by unethical corporations consumed with greed. A sad and well-told story.
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- Lee Greer
- 10-28-19
Enjoyed this book. Very thought-provoking and well written.
Enjoy this book. Very thought-provoking and well written. Very much enjoyed the thoroughness of her research.
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- P. Yanov
- 08-15-18
fascinating look at hydraulic fracturing
This feels like a pretty balanced look at what happens when people are impacted by hydraulic fracturing. in Pennsylvania, it appears that the Department of Environmental Protection is somewhere between unwilling and unable to actually protect the environment or the citizens of the Commonwealth. Government agents have been captured by industry. it's appalling and sad. it appears that nothing will be done, however, because the victims are poor.
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- Amazon Customer
- 12-17-19
This books story goes deep
This book has an introspect into personal lives of the people standing up for rights!
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- Algaewiz
- 03-08-21
Exceptional Book, heart breaking story
The author accurately details a scenario played out often across the US landscape, that rarely gets told. Flint and Amity are not the exception, they are becoming the rule...
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- janine
- 04-30-19
Wake up!
I rarely write reviews.. however I was moved after finishing this book. So sad to listen to these family’s struggles. A MUST LISTEN!
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- Mother of Chickens
- 06-28-18
touching and poignant
This provided a touching and poignant glimpse into a complex situation. It intertwines sad realities with inspirational examples of resilience and admirable heroics. Well recommended for anyone with an interest in fracking or the history of southwest PA.
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- twokats
- 06-28-19
speed it up
The narration on this book kept me bogged down. The reader has a lilting style that seemed to distract from the story. It got much better after I speeded the reading up to 1 and 1/2.
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