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Falling for an Eastside Villain
- By: Robin
- Narrated by: Machelle Williams, Benjamin Charles
- Length: 6 hrs and 44 mins
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I never planned on selling weed to make ends meet while juggling medical school. I certainly didn’t plan on catching feelings for Jordin "Mercy"—a street-smart charmer with a past darker than his flawless caramel skin. He’s got power, money, and enemies, yet somehow, his world feels safer than my own. But loving a man like Jordin isn’t simple. It’s a tightrope walk between devotion and destruction, secrets and survival.
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Overcoming Crazy
- By SheaButter Kay on 04-08-26
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Falling for an Eastside Villain
- Narrated by: Machelle Williams, Benjamin Charles
- Length: 6 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 03-26-25
- Language: English
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Eastside Hedge Witch
- Midlife Supernaturals, Book 1
- By: T.J. Deschamps
- Narrated by: Cassandra Medcalf
- Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
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Twenty years ago, I stole something that could win the war between Heaven and Hell. Don't get me wrong, I'm no do-gooder. I wanted to rule everything with the King of Hell. However, I have serious qualms with killing eight billion people in order to get what I want. He didn't. Irreconcilable differences, right? So, I did what any witch would do. I faked my death and hid out in the Seattle suburbs, living as a mundane. Stay at home moms are practically invisible here!
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Did not enjoy
- By Tay A on 07-01-22
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Eastside Hedge Witch
- Midlife Supernaturals, Book 1
- Narrated by: Cassandra Medcalf
- Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 03-14-22
- Language: English
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Eastside Coven
- Midlife Supernaturals, Book 4
- By: T.J. Deschamps
- Narrated by: Cassandra Medcalf
- Length: 5 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Miriam Diaz has it all. Her full magic and knowledge of her past. Her father's love and blessing. Two powerful supernaturals who adore her and want to marry her. Friends who value her for who she is, not what she can do for them. A position on the Supernatural Council of the Americas. An award winning, successful bakery. She's faced the skeletons in her closet and defeated all her enemies. Her daughter is grown and starting her own life.
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Eastside Coven
- Midlife Supernaturals, Book 4
- Narrated by: Cassandra Medcalf
- Series: Midlife Supernaturals, Book 4
- Length: 5 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 08-08-24
- Language: English
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East Side Story & Swimming With Sharks
- Two Novellas
- By: Sue Seabury
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 3 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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East Side Story - It's the 1980s. Big hair, big shoulder pads, and a chance for a shy little gal from the Bronx to score big in love. Swimming With Sharks - 40-something Molly Banger has worked hard all her life, but it's finally paid off. With a beautiful family, a great job, and a perfect house, she's living the dream in LA. And it's all about to come crashing down.
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East Side Story & Swimming With Sharks
- Two Novellas
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 3 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 04-09-25
- Language: English
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Harley Loco
- A Memoir of Hard Living, Hair, and Post-Punk from the Middle East to the Lower East Side
- By: Rayya Elias
- Narrated by: Christina Delaine
- Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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When she was 7, Rayya Elias and her family fled the political conflict in their native Syria, settling in Detroit. Bullied in school and caught between the world of her traditional family and her tough American classmates, she rebelled early. Elias moved to New York City to become a musician and kept herself afloat with an uncommon talent for cutting hair. At the height of the punk movement, life on the Lower East Side was full of adventure, creative inspiration, and temptation.
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Really fun ride-
- By Mary Kelso on 09-27-25
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Harley Loco
- A Memoir of Hard Living, Hair, and Post-Punk from the Middle East to the Lower East Side
- Narrated by: Christina Delaine
- Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 09-29-20
- Language: English
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The Muse's Undoing
- Doormen of the Upper East Side, Book 2
- By: August Jones
- Narrated by: Zachary Johnson, Ellis Evans
- Length: 13 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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I may be struggling as an artist in New York, but I'm a great doorman. Is it the easiest job in the city? Probably. And it gives my mind all the time it needs to wander. Sometimes to my current project or muse, but more often to the one who got away. I was the one he used to reach for in the middle of the night when the nightmares came. My adopted brother, once not much more than a stranger, became my closest friend during one of the most difficult times of his life.
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Repetitive.
- By Kelley Roberts on 02-06-26
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The Muse's Undoing
- Doormen of the Upper East Side, Book 2
- Narrated by: Zachary Johnson, Ellis Evans
- Series: Doormen of the Upper East Side, Book 2
- Length: 13 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 04-29-25
- Language: English
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Belly of the Beast
- By: Caleb Alexander
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 7 hrs and 31 mins
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Caleb Alexander has woven his most explosive and provocative tale to date. Belly of the Beast takes the readers on a violent, gut wrenching, deeply emotional journey through the American prison system. A place where friends become enemies, and enemies band together for survival in a system that is designed for their destruction, and in a society that has written them off. Belly of the Beast is a straight forward look at racism, the prison industrial complex, and the nature of our humanity. Throw in racist prison guards, a former Grand Wizard of the KKK, Billionaire tax evaders, violent ...
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Belly of the Beast
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 7 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 02-22-24
- Language: English
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"Detroit Eastside Dreams."
- From the playgrounds of Detroit to the bright lights of the NBA, two childhood friends who rise above violence of the streets to achieve greatness.
- By: Robert Crooms
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 1 hr and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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From the playgrounds of Detroit to the bright lights of the NBA, Detroit Eastside Dreams follows Mike Harris and Gary Thompson, two childhood friends who rise above poverty, broken homes, and the violence of the streets to achieve greatness. Mike, the lightning-quick point guard and team captain, and Gary, the towering 6’10” center and unstoppable force, share a bond stronger than anything life throws at them. Together, they dominate high school and college basketball, earning scholarships to Michigan State, fending off jealousy, heartbreak, and the pressures of fame. Their journey ...
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"Detroit Eastside Dreams."
- From the playgrounds of Detroit to the bright lights of the NBA, two childhood friends who rise above violence of the streets to achieve greatness.
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 1 hr and 9 mins
- Release date: 09-27-25
- Language: English
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The Sinner's Sanctuary
- Doormen of the Upper East Side, Book 3
- By: August Jones
- Narrated by: Ellis Evans, Jonathan Lake
- Length: 12 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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My first love died in her sleep, and I ask forgiveness every day from a God I struggle to believe in. I write poems in a basement, keep my failures and secrets to myself, and live a life that feels like a lie. A life I owe to a man I barely know. Gibson Hayes is married, wealthy, powerful, and the man who gave me my job when I came to New York. He's the most generous of billionaires and the most mysterious of men.
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The Sinner's Sanctuary
- Doormen of the Upper East Side, Book 3
- Narrated by: Ellis Evans, Jonathan Lake
- Series: Doormen of the Upper East Side, Book 3
- Length: 12 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 08-25-26
- Language: English
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The Liar's Reckoning
- By: August Jones
- Narrated by: Jonathan Lake, Ellis Evans
- Length: 17 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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The lies we tell ourselves are the worst lies of all. Silas Manning: Doorman at Hanover Gardens on the Upper East Side Senator Graham Lather is the client I can't shake. The bane of my existence. My opposite in every way. He's my soulmate. He came into my bed the way most men do, but he wouldn't...
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The Liar's Reckoning
- Narrated by: Jonathan Lake, Ellis Evans
- Series: Doormen of the Upper East Side, Book 4
- Length: 17 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 11-10-26
- Language: English
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Harley Loco
- A Memoir of Hard Living, Hair and Post-Punk, from the Middle East to the Lower East Side
- By: Rayya Elias
- Narrated by: Christina Delaine
- Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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When she was seven, Rayya Elias and her upper-class family fled the political conflict in their native Syria, settling in a suburb of Detroit. Rayya moved to New York City to become a musician and kept herself afloat with an uncommon talent for cutting hair. Eventually though, Elias's affairs with lovers of both sexes went awry, her (more than) occasional drug use turned to addiction and she found herself living on the streets - between visits to jail.
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Harley Loco
- A Memoir of Hard Living, Hair and Post-Punk, from the Middle East to the Lower East Side
- Narrated by: Christina Delaine
- Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 10-09-25
- Language: English
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Alphaville
- 1988, Crime, Punishment, and the Battle for New York City’s Lower East Side
- By: Michael Codella, Bruce Bennett
- Narrated by: Keith Szarabajka
- Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1988, Alphabet City burned with heroin, radicalism, and antipolice sentiment. Working as a plainclothes narcotics cop in the most high-voltage neighborhood in Manhattan, Detective Sergeant Mike Codella earned the nickname “Rambo” from the local dealers, as well as a $50,000 bounty on his head. The son of a cop who grew up in a mob neighborhood in Brooklyn, Codella understood the unwritten laws of the shadowy businesses that ruled the streets.
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Excellent book!
- By Mema on 03-29-13
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Alphaville
- 1988, Crime, Punishment, and the Battle for New York City’s Lower East Side
- Narrated by: Keith Szarabajka
- Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 12-08-10
- Language: English
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Trashed
- By: Mia Hopkins
- Narrated by: Gomez Pugh
- Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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My name is Eddie Rosas, but everyone calls me Trouble. Since I got out of prison six months ago, I've had one goal: find my father, whatever the cost. My older brother says I need to move on. He also wants me to leave our gang, East Side Hollenbeck, and go straight, but I can't - not until I uncover the truth about our family and its missing piece.
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These books are some of my favorites in a very long time
- By jlynnmurphy on 08-20-19
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Trashed
- Narrated by: Gomez Pugh
- Series: Eastside Brewery, Book 2
- Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 07-16-19
- Language: English
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Murder on the Upper East Side
- A Novel
- By: Gigi Waldorf
- Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Scandal never graduates in this glossy thriller set in the world of New York’s ultra-elite, perfect for fans of Gossip Girl and Holly Jackson. 2016: Hannah Miller has begun her senior year at The Prescott Academy of New York alongside the rich and famous of the Upper East Side. Or at least...
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Murder on the Upper East Side
- A Novel
- Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 09-08-26
- Language: English
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The Heir's Disgrace
- Doormen of the Upper East Side, Book 1
- By: August Jones
- Narrated by: Zachary Johnson, Ellis Evans
- Length: 12 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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I'm stuck in an uptown lobby while my dreams of making it as a model in New York hang by a single thread. Meanwhile, Olivier Arnaud lives his best life as a useless socialite, flaunting his wealth, his looks, and his privilege. His gaze taunts, and his nightly, condescending smirks burrow deep beneath my skin where I simmer with bitterness and hate. The day he asks me to deliver his mail directly to his twelfth-floor penthouse, he makes it personal, and the thread snaps—violently. With my hand around his neck, I feel alive for the first time in months.
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Ellis Evans is everything.
- By Courtney on 05-08-25
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The Heir's Disgrace
- Doormen of the Upper East Side, Book 1
- Narrated by: Zachary Johnson, Ellis Evans
- Series: Doormen of the Upper East Side, Book 1
- Length: 12 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 03-18-25
- Language: English
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The Untold Stories of Madison Avenue
- An Insider’s Glimpse Into the Upper East Side
- By: The Guy Who Knows
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 3 hrs and 32 mins
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This book is not a literary novel. It’s not a memoir. And it’s not meant to be taken as fact,or dismissed as pure fiction. The Untold Stories of Madison Avenue is a fast, unapologetic, behind-the-scenes glimpse into the world of New York’s Upper East Side, told by someone who has lived and worked inside it. Written in short, standalone chapters, the book reads like overheard conversations, salon gossip, whispered confessions, and stories that circulate behind closed doors. Some are exaggerated. Some are inspired by real moments. All are meant to entertain. This is an easy, quick read,...
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The Untold Stories of Madison Avenue
- An Insider’s Glimpse Into the Upper East Side
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 3 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 03-06-24
- Language: English
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Thirsty
- By: Mia Hopkins
- Narrated by: Ozzie Rodriguez
- Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
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My name is Salvador Rosas. Back in the barrio, my past is written on the walls: ESHB. Short for East Side Hollenbeck, my father's gang - my gang. Hell, it's a family tradition, one that sent both my brothers away. They used to call me "Ghost" because I haunted people's dreams. Now I've got nothing going for me except a hipster gringo mentoring me in a new career. An ex-con making craft beer? No mames. Still, people in this neighborhood look out for one another.
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Really good ....
- By AMSullivan1077 on 04-07-19
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Thirsty
- Narrated by: Ozzie Rodriguez
- Series: Eastside Brewery, Book 1
- Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 03-13-18
- Language: English
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East
- By: Edith Pattou
- Narrated by: Various
- Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
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Rose is the youngest of seven children, meant to replace her dead sister. Maybe because of that, she’s never really fit in. She’s always felt different, out of place, a restless wanderer in a family of homebodies. So when an enormous white bear mysteriously shows up and asks her to come away...
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Frmom an East of the Sun, West of the Moon Fan
- By Here-and-faraway on 09-17-12
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Eastside Mórríga
- Midlife Supernaturals, Book 3
- By: T.J. Deschamps
- Narrated by: Cassandra Medcalf
- Length: 5 hrs and 19 mins
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The oldest foe of all witches have returned from their ostensible grave. They have sworn an oath of blood for blood and will have their vengeance at any cost. However, not all witches aren't who they used to be. Some come with incredible power and have allies these Evil Dudes have never faced.
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Eastside Mórríga
- Midlife Supernaturals, Book 3
- Narrated by: Cassandra Medcalf
- Series: Midlife Supernaturals, Book 3
- Length: 5 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 10-07-22
- Language: English
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East Side Story
- A Novel
- By: Louis Auchincloss
- Narrated by: Clinton Wade, Gregory St. John
- Length: 6 hrs and 54 mins
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How did the families who live on Manhattan's Upper East Side get to where they are today? As much a penetrating social history as it is engaging fiction, East Side Story tells of the Carnochans, a family whose Scottish forebears establish themselves in New York's textile business during the Civil War. From there they quickly move on to seize prominent positions in the country's top schools and Manhattan's elite firms. As the novel unfolds, family members across the generations recount their stories, illuminating lives steeped in both good fortune and moral jeopardy.
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For richer or poorer, it's always about the money
- By Linda C on 04-09-24
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East Side Story
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Clinton Wade, Gregory St. John
- Length: 6 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 02-25-14
- Language: English
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In this book, Jane Jacobs, building on the work of her debut, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, investigates the delicate way cities balance the interplay between the domestic production of goods and the ever-changing tide of imports. Using case studies of developing cities in the ancient, pre-agricultural world, and contemporary cities on the decline, like the financially irresponsible New York City of the mid-sixties, Jacobs identifies the main drivers of urban prosperity and growth, often via counterintuitive and revelatory lessons.
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Superb…and prescient!
- By David P. Wingert on 04-14-23
By: Jane Jacobs
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Boom Town
- The Fantastical Saga of Oklahoma City, its Chaotic Founding... its Purloined Basketball Team, and the Dream of Becoming a World-class Metropolis
- By: Sam Anderson
- Narrated by: Sam Anderson
- Length: 14 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,041
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Performance913
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“A bonkers, kitchen-sink cultural history of Oklahoma City, with the local Thunder’s would-be dynasty as its driving soul.”—The New York Times “Dizzyingly pleasurable . . . curious, hilarious, and wildly erudite.”—The New Yorker A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book...
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OKC’s Past & Present Weaved Together
- By dan on 09-09-18
By: Sam Anderson
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Big Wonderful Thing
- By: Stephen Harrigan
- Narrated by: George Guidall
- Length: 28 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall110
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Performance94
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Story93
The story of Texas is the story of struggle and triumph in a land of extremes. It is a story of drought and flood, invasion and war, boom and bust, and of the myriad peoples who, over centuries of conflict, gave rise to a place that has helped shape the identity of the United States and the destiny of the world.
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Guidall is in top form with very good material
- By Elizabeth on 12-22-19
By: Stephen Harrigan
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Tomlinson Hill
- The Remarkable Story of Two Families Who Share the Tomlinson Name - One White, One Black
- By: Chris Tomlinson
- Narrated by: David Drummond
- Length: 13 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall33
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Performance27
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Story29
Journalist Chris Tomlinson grew up hearing stories about his family's abandoned cotton plantation in Falls County, Texas. Most of the tales lionized his white ancestors for pioneering along the Brazos River. His grandfather often said the family's slaves loved them so much that they also took Tomlinson as their last name. LaDainian Tomlinson, football great and former running back for the San Diego Chargers, spent part of his childhood playing on the same land that his Black ancestors had worked as slaves.
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Falls County resident
- By Amazon Customer on 01-24-26
By: Chris Tomlinson
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Gallows View
- By: Peter Robinson
- Narrated by: Mark Honan
- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall522
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Performance423
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Story422
Former London policeman Alan Banks relocated to Yorkshire seeking some small measure of peace. But depravity and violence are unfortunately not unique to large cities. His new venue, the quaint little village of Eastvale, seems to have more than its fair share of malefactors---among them a brazen Peeping Tom who hides in night's shadows spying on attractive, unsuspecting ladies as they prepare for bed.
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Wrong interpretation
- By Patrick on 08-24-09
By: Peter Robinson
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The Death and Life of Great American Cities
- 50th Anniversary Edition
- By: Jane Jacobs, Jason Epstein - introduction
- Narrated by: Donna Rawlins
- Length: 18 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall705
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Performance584
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Story576
Thirty years after its publication, The Death and Life of Great American Cities was described by The New York Times as "perhaps the most influential single work in the history of town planning....[It] can also be seen in a much larger context. It is first of all a work of literature; the...
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Fantastic text, dull on audio
- By Meghan on 02-13-15
By: Jane Jacobs, and others
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Gone to Texas
- A History of the Lone Star State
- By: Randolph B. Campbell
- Narrated by: Jacob Sommer
- Length: 28 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall148
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Performance139
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Story133
Gone to Texas engagingly tells the story of the Lone Star State, from the arrival of humans in the Panhandle more than 10,000 years ago to the opening of the 21st Century. Focusing on the state's successive waves of immigrants, the audiobook offers an inclusive view of the vast array of Texans who, often in conflict with each other and always in a struggle with the land, created a history and an idea of Texas.
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Good history from year zero through about 1962
- By Jim In Texas! on 03-24-14
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Systems of Survival
- A Dialogue on the Moral Foundations of Commerce and Politics
- By: Jane Jacobs
- Narrated by: Kate Rudd
- Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall0
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Performance0
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In Systems of Survival, Jane Jacobs identifies two distinct moral syndromes—one governing commerce, the other politics—and explores what happens when these two syndromes collide. She looks at business fraud and criminal enterprise, government’s overextended subsidies to agriculture, and transit police who abuse the system the are supposed to enforce, and asks us to consider instances in which snobbery is a virtue and industry a vice.
By: Jane Jacobs
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The Nature of Economies
- By: Jane Jacobs
- Narrated by: Kate Rudd
- Length: 4 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1
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Performance1
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Decades after The Death and Life of Great American Cities forever changed the field of urban studies, Jane Jacobs—one of the few contemporary thinkers whose works will remain in print for generations—brought us a modern classic on economies and ecology. The Nature of Economies is written in the form of a Platonic dialogue, a conversation over coffee among five contemporary New Yorkers. The question they discuss is: Does economic life obey the same rules as those governing nature? The answers that emerge will shape the way people think about how economies really work.
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Great information, poor delivery
- By Tanner Janesky on 12-02-25
By: Jane Jacobs
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Dark Age Ahead
- By: Jane Jacobs
- Narrated by: Christine Williams
- Length: 5 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1
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Performance1
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Throughout history, there have been many more dark ages than the one that occurred between the fall of the Roman Empire and the dawn of the Renaissance. Ten thousand years ago, our ancestors went from hunter-gatherers to farmers and, along the way, lost almost all memory of what existed before. Now we stand at another monumental crossroads, as agrarianism gives way to a technology-based future. How do we make this shift without losing the culture we hold dear—and without falling behind other nations that successfully master the transition?
By: Jane Jacobs
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Cities and the Wealth of Nations
- Principles of Economic Life
- By: Jane Jacobs
- Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
- Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5
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Performance5
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Story5
In this eye-opening work of economic theory, Jane Jacobs argues that it is cities—not nations—that are the drivers of wealth. Challenging centuries of economic orthodoxy, in Cities and the Wealth of Nations the beloved author contends that healthy cities are constantly evolving to replace imported goods with locally produced alternatives, spurring a cycle of vibrant economic growth. Intelligently argued and drawing on examples from around the world and across the ages, here Jacobs radically changes the way we view our cities—and our entire economy.
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Why are other economist not talking about import replacement theory?
- By Richard McKown on 12-13-24
By: Jane Jacobs
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A Single Star and Bloody Knuckles
- A History of Politics and Race in Texas (The Texas Bookshelf)
- By: Bill Minutaglio
- Narrated by: John Guccion
- Length: 15 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1
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Performance1
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Story1
For John Nance “Cactus Jack” Garner, there was one simple rule in politics: “You’ve got to bloody your knuckles.” It’s a maxim that applies in so many ways to the state of Texas, where the struggle for power has often unfolded through underhanded politicking, backroom dealings, and, quite literally, bloodshed. The contentious history of Texas politics has been shaped by dangerous and often violent events, and been formed not just in the halls of power but by marginalized voices omitted from the official narratives.
By: Bill Minutaglio
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A Dedicated Man
- An Inspector Banks Novel
- By: Peter Robinson
- Narrated by: James Langton
- Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall411
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Performance334
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Story336
A dedicated man is dead in the Yorkshire dales---a former university professor, wealthy historian, and archaeologist who loved his adopted village. It is a particularly heinous slaying, considering the esteem in which the victim, Harry Steadman, was held by his neighbors and colleagues---by everyone, it seems, except the one person who bludgeoned the life out of the respected scholar and left him half-buried in a farmer's field.
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As good as the first
- By Ore O on 06-17-14
By: Peter Robinson
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Lone Star
- A History of Texas and the Texans
- By: T. R. Fehrenbach
- Narrated by: John McLain
- Length: 39 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall320
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Performance280
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Story280
Here is a must-listen history of the Lone Star State, together with an insider's look at the people, politics, and events that have shaped Texas from the beginning right up to our days. Never before has the story been told with more vitality and immediacy. Fehrenbach re-creates the Texas saga from prehistory to the Spanish and French invasions to the heyday of the cotton and cattle empires. He dramatically describes the emergence of Texas as a republic, the vote for secession before the Civil War, and the state's readmission to the Union after the War.
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Top -10
- By JNW on 03-29-18
By: T. R. Fehrenbach
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A Necessary End
- By: Peter Robinson
- Narrated by: James Langton
- Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall242
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Performance188
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Story186
A peaceful demonstration in the normally quiet town of Eastvale ended with 50 arrests---and the brutal stabbing death of a young constable. But Chief Inspector Alan Banks fears there is worse violence in the offing. For CID superintendent Richard "Dirty Dick" Burgess has arrived from London to take charge of the investigation, fueled by professional outrage and volatile, long-simmering hatreds.
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Good, but not the best in the series.
- By Sandy on 08-20-12
By: Peter Robinson
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The Conquest of Texas: Ethnic Cleansing in the Promised Land, 1820 - 1875
- By: Gary Clayton Anderson
- Narrated by: George Utley
- Length: 18 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall18
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Performance18
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Story18
The Conquest of Texas is the story of the struggle between Anglos and Indians for land. Anderson tells how Scotch-Irish settlers clashed with farming tribes and then challenged the Comanches and Kiowas for their hunting grounds. Next, the decade-long conflict with Mexico merged with war against Indians. For fifty years Texas remained in a virtual state of war. Piercing the very heart of Lone Star mythology, Anderson tells how the Texas government encouraged the Texas Rangers to annihilate Indian villages, including women and children. This policy of terror succeeded.
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Texas, well and truly messed with!
- By Buretto on 11-09-19
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Town Planning in Practice
- By: Raymond Unwin
- Narrated by: Mark Tester
- Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1
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Performance1
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Story1
Raymond Unwin was a prominent architect and engineer from the late 19th and early 20th century. He helped popularize the Arts and Crafts movement and was one of the first English voices in the town planning movement. Town Planning in Practice was published in 1909 and still resonates with planners and urban designers today. It reflects on discussions that are still happening to this day including the design of buildings, plots of land, and neighborhood streets.
By: Raymond Unwin
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The Great Oklahoma Swindle
- Race, Religion, and Lies in America's Weirdest State
- By: Russell Cobb
- Narrated by: Lloyd James
- Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall31
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Performance27
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Story27
Look down as you buzz across America, and Oklahoma looks like another “flyover state.” A closer inspection, however, reveals one of the most tragic, fascinating, and unpredictable places in the United States In this book, Russell Cobb tells the story of a state rich in natural resources and artistic talent, yet near the bottom in education and social welfare. Raised in Tulsa, Cobb engages Oklahomans across the boundaries of race and class to hear their troubles, anxieties, and aspirations and delves deep to understand their contradictory and often stridently independent attitudes.
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Required reading for any Oklahoman
- By AGifford on 12-26-23
By: Russell Cobb
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Remember Ben Clayton
- By: Stephen Harrigan
- Narrated by: George Guidall
- Length: 13 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall93
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Performance85
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Story83
Exiled to Texas with his grown daughter, sculptor Francis “Gil” Gilheaney is commissioned to create a statue for a man who recently lost his son in World War I. But as work on the statue progresses, secrets slowly reveal themselves and Gil’s fragile family threads begin to fray.
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Guidall Reads Another Winner
- By Jonelle on 12-14-12
By: Stephen Harrigan
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Order Without Design
- How Markets Shape Cities (The MIT Press)
- By: Alain Bertaud
- Narrated by: Camille Mazant
- Length: 20 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall27
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Performance23
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Story23
Urban planning is a craft learned through practice. Planners make rapid decisions that have an immediate impact on the ground - the width of streets, the minimum size of land parcels, the heights of buildings. The language they use to describe their objectives is qualitative - “sustainable,” “livable,” “resilient” - often with no link to measurable outcomes. Urban economics, on the other hand, is a quantitative science, based on theories, models, and empirical evidence largely developed in academic settings.
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great book, rough around the edges performance
- By Joel Pollen on 04-05-21
By: Alain Bertaud
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The Devil in the White City
- Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
- By: Erik Larson
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 14 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall31,445
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Performance26,008
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Story25,997
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The true tale of the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago and the cunning serial killer who used the magic and majesty of the fair to lure his victims to their death. A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Century Two men, each handsome and unusually adept at his...
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A Rich Read!
- By D on 09-18-03
By: Erik Larson
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The Power Broker
- Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
- By: Robert A. Caro
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 66 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4,926
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Performance4,333
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Story4,337
PULITZER PRIZE WINNER A modern American classic, this huge and galvanizing biography of Robert Moses reveals not only the saga of one man’s incredible accumulation of power but the story of his shaping (and mis-shaping) of twentieth-century New York. One of the Modern Library’s hundred...
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AMAZING read
- By jeff on 09-15-11
By: Robert A. Caro
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There Is No Place for Us
- Working and Homeless in America
- By: Brian Goldstone
- Narrated by: Dion Graham, Brian Goldstone
- Length: 13 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall164
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Performance156
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Story156
ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES AND THE ATLANTIC’S TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR ONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR Through the “revelatory and gut-wrenching” (Associated Press) stories of five Atlanta families, this landmark work of journalism exposes a new and troubling...
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Disturbing even before Trump 2.0
- By Vas Sladek on 11-19-25
By: Brian Goldstone
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How Big Things Get Done
- The Surprising Factors That Determine the Fate of Every Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration and Everything In Between
- By: Bent Flyvbjerg, Dan Gardner
- Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
- Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall493
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Performance437
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Story435
One of The Economist’s Best Books of 2023 The secrets to successfully planning and delivering ambitious, complex projects on any scale—from home renovation to space exploration—by the world's leading expert on megaprojects. Nothing is more inspiring than a big vision that becomes a...
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Great on Project Mgmt But Uninformed on Renewables
- By Richard Redano on 03-09-23
By: Bent Flyvbjerg, and others
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The Devil in the White City
- Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
- By: Erik Larson
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 14 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall31,445
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Performance26,008
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Story25,997
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The true tale of the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago and the cunning serial killer who used the magic and majesty of the fair to lure his victims to their death. A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Century Two men, each handsome and unusually adept at his...
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A Rich Read!
- By D on 09-18-03
By: Erik Larson
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The Power Broker
- Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
- By: Robert A. Caro
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 66 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4,926
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Performance4,333
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Story4,337
PULITZER PRIZE WINNER A modern American classic, this huge and galvanizing biography of Robert Moses reveals not only the saga of one man’s incredible accumulation of power but the story of his shaping (and mis-shaping) of twentieth-century New York. One of the Modern Library’s hundred...
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AMAZING read
- By jeff on 09-15-11
By: Robert A. Caro
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There Is No Place for Us
- Working and Homeless in America
- By: Brian Goldstone
- Narrated by: Dion Graham, Brian Goldstone
- Length: 13 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall164
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Performance156
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Story156
ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES AND THE ATLANTIC’S TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR ONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR Through the “revelatory and gut-wrenching” (Associated Press) stories of five Atlanta families, this landmark work of journalism exposes a new and troubling...
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Disturbing even before Trump 2.0
- By Vas Sladek on 11-19-25
By: Brian Goldstone
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How Big Things Get Done
- The Surprising Factors That Determine the Fate of Every Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration and Everything In Between
- By: Bent Flyvbjerg, Dan Gardner
- Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
- Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall493
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Performance437
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Story435
One of The Economist’s Best Books of 2023 The secrets to successfully planning and delivering ambitious, complex projects on any scale—from home renovation to space exploration—by the world's leading expert on megaprojects. Nothing is more inspiring than a big vision that becomes a...
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Great on Project Mgmt But Uninformed on Renewables
- By Richard Redano on 03-09-23
By: Bent Flyvbjerg, and others
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Seeing Like a State
- By: James C. Scott
- Narrated by: Michael Kramer
- Length: 16 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall502
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Performance411
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Story407
Why do well-intentioned plans for improving the human condition go tragically awry? Author James C. Scott analyzes failed cases of large-scale authoritarian plans in a variety of fields. Centrally managed social plans misfire, Scott argues, when they impose schematic visions that do violence to complex interdependencies that are not - and cannot - be fully understood. Further, the success of designs for social organization depends upon the recognition that local, practical knowledge is as important as formal, epistemic knowledge.
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Beats a dead horse and then beats it again
- By Nathan Parker on 10-29-20
By: James C. Scott
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Evicted
- Poverty and Profit in the American City
- By: Matthew Desmond
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall6,122
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Performance5,433
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Story5,416
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE ONE OF TIME’S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES’S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY A KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE CENTURY AN OPRAH DAILY BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE PAST...
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Former Property Manager
- By Charla on 05-18-16
By: Matthew Desmond
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London in the Time of Dickens
- By: Lillian Nayder, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Lillian Nayder
- Length: 6 hrs and 8 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall17
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Performance13
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Story13
In London in the Time of Dickens, you’ll get the unique opportunity to experience the British capital through the eyes of a literary master whose work is inextricably tied to the city and its rich history. Throughout 12 lectures taught by Professor Lillian Nayder of Bates College, you’ll tour the city of London in a time of rapid transformation through the life and work of Charles Dickens, uncovering the history of the metropolis, while also witnessing the everyday experiences of Londoners from all walks of life as Dickens represents them.
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The book read like an interesting Biography and at the same time it painted what was going on in London at that time !😊
- By miriam wismar on 12-02-23
By: Lillian Nayder, and others
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Behind the Beautiful Forevers
- Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
- By: Katherine Boo
- Narrated by: Sunil Malhotra
- Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2,350
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Performance2,023
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Story2,024
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER ONE OF TIME’S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES’S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY A KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE CENTURY AN OPRAH DAILY BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE PAST...
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An Antidote for Shantaram
- By Dr. on 06-14-12
By: Katherine Boo
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The Corner
- A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood
- By: David Simon, Edward Burns
- Narrated by: Dion Graham, David Simon
- Length: 25 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall336
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Performance301
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Story301
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. David Simon, an award-winning author and crime reporter...
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Insightful. A Must Read For Suburban Americans.
- By WitchCrafter on 06-01-21
By: David Simon, and others
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The Death and Life of Great American Cities
- 50th Anniversary Edition
- By: Jane Jacobs, Jason Epstein - introduction
- Narrated by: Donna Rawlins
- Length: 18 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall705
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Performance584
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Story576
Thirty years after its publication, The Death and Life of Great American Cities was described by The New York Times as "perhaps the most influential single work in the history of town planning....[It] can also be seen in a much larger context. It is first of all a work of literature; the...
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Fantastic text, dull on audio
- By Meghan on 02-13-15
By: Jane Jacobs, and others
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An Invisible Thread
- The True Story of an 11-Year-Old Panhandler, a Busy Sales Executive, and an Unlikely Meeting with Destiny
- By: Laura Schroff, Alex Tresniowski
- Narrated by: Pam Ward
- Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall700
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Performance617
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Story613
This 10th anniversary edition of the beloved #1 New York Times bestseller includes a new introduction and afterword by the author. Chronicling the lifelong friendship between a busy sales executive and a disadvantaged young boy that began with one small gesture of kindness, this is a “ray of...
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2 People Show How to Get Where they Hope to Go!
- By Mary Burnight on 07-06-21
By: Laura Schroff, and others
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Random Family
- Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx
- By: Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
- Narrated by: Roxana Ortega
- Length: 20 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall261
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Performance236
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Story233
This New York Times bestseller intimately depicts urban life in a gripping book that slips behind cold statistics and sensationalism to reveal the true sagas lurking behind the headlines of gangsta glamour. One of The New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century In her extraordinary...
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Speechless
- By Amazon Customer on 09-02-19
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The Cross and the Switchblade
- By: David Wilkerson
- Narrated by: Raymond Todd
- Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall723
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Performance645
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Story638
Led by incredible faith, Wilkerson left his country pulpit in 1958 for the streets of New York City, where a murder trial of seven teenaged boys churned society's antipathy toward them. Even Wilkerson was bewildered by his sense of compassion, but in spite of doubt, he followed the Spirit's prompting to help the boys. This is the amazing story of his journey, and of the mighty power of God to accomplish the impossible.
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The story can't be beat-recording is terrible
- By Nightingale on 05-22-14
By: David Wilkerson
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Homelessness is a Housing Problem
- How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns
- By: Gregg Colburn, Clayton Page Aldern
- Narrated by: Adam Verner
- Length: 6 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall32
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Performance28
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In Homelessness Is a Housing Problem, Gregg Colburn and Clayton Page 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, Colburn and Aldern shift their focus from the individual experiencing homelessness to the metropolitan area. Using accessible statistical analysis, they test a range of conventional beliefs about what drives the prevalence of homelessness in a given city and find that none explain the regional variation observed across the country.
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NO PDF! NO CHARTS!
- By P. Dean on 06-02-23
By: Gregg Colburn, and others
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Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bronx Is Burning
- 1977, Baseball, Politics, and the Battle for the Soul of a City
- By: Jonathan Mahler
- Narrated by: Kyle Tait
- Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall105
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Performance96
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Story96
By early 1977, New York City was in the grip of hysteria caused by a murderer dubbed "Son of Sam". And on a sweltering night in July, a citywide power outage touched off an orgy of looting and arson that led to the largest mass arrest in the city's history. As the turbulent year wore on, the city became absorbed in two epic battles: the fight between Yankee slugger Reggie Jackson and team manager Billy Martin, and the battle between Ed Koch and Mario Cuomo for the city's mayoralty.
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Excellent
- By pp on 04-22-21
By: Jonathan Mahler
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Report from Engine Co. 82
- By: Dennis Smith
- Narrated by: Lloyd James
- Length: 2 hrs and 55 mins
- Abridged
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Overall498
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Performance431
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Story430
Report from Engine Co. 82 is the story of one company of New York firefighters battling unimaginable death and destruction every day. Dennis Smith worked as a firefighter in the South Bronx, New York City, and the graphic detail and gripping prose of this firefighting classic drives the most important, accomplished, terrifying audiobook ever published on firefighting.
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stog was good
- By Bagladybl on 08-24-21
By: Dennis Smith
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Walkable City
- How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time
- By: Jeff Speck
- Narrated by: Jeff Speck
- Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,022
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Performance896
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Story887
Jeff Speck has dedicated his career to determining what makes cities thrive. And he has boiled it down to one key factor: walkability. The very idea of a modern metropolis evokes visions of bustling sidewalks, vital mass transit, and a vibrant, pedestrian-friendly urban core. But in the typical American city, the car is still king, and downtown is a place that’s easy to drive to but often not worth arriving at. Making walkability happen is relatively easy and cheap; seeing exactly what needs to be done is the trick.
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Interesting topic and thoughtful insight, subpar recording.
- By Andrew Nicks on 05-12-18
By: Jeff Speck
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Boom Town
- The Fantastical Saga of Oklahoma City, its Chaotic Founding... its Purloined Basketball Team, and the Dream of Becoming a World-class Metropolis
- By: Sam Anderson
- Narrated by: Sam Anderson
- Length: 14 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,041
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Performance913
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Story912
“A bonkers, kitchen-sink cultural history of Oklahoma City, with the local Thunder’s would-be dynasty as its driving soul.”—The New York Times “Dizzyingly pleasurable . . . curious, hilarious, and wildly erudite.”—The New Yorker A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book...
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OKC’s Past & Present Weaved Together
- By dan on 09-09-18
By: Sam Anderson
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San Fransicko
- Why Progressives Ruin Cities
- By: Michael Shellenberger
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,542
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Performance1,312
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Story1,308
National bestselling author of APOCALYPSE NEVER skewers progressives for the mishandling of America’s faltering cities. Progressives claimed they knew how to solve homelessness, inequality, and crime. But in cities they control, progressives made those problems worse. Michael Shellenberger has...
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An excellent book about the problem with the progressive movement
- By Amazon Customer on 10-18-21
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Confessions of a Recovering Engineer
- Transportation for a Strong Town
- By: Charles L. Marohn Jr.
- Narrated by: Christopher Douyard
- Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall220
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Performance183
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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, and how to modernize transportation to better serve local communities.
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Well Worth Your Time To Read or Listen To!
- By Cliff on 02-08-22
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Empire of Sin
- By: Gary Krist
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 10 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall327
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Performance290
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Story288
Empire of Sin re-creates the remarkable story of New Orleans' 30-years war against itself, pitting the city's elite "better half" against its powerful and long-entrenched underworld of vice, perversity, and crime. This early-20th-century battle centers on one man: Tom Anderson, the undisputed czar of the city's Storyville vice district, who fights desperately to keep his empire intact as it faces onslaughts from all sides.
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very interesting
- By Claireoline on 02-20-15
By: Gary Krist
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Gang Leader for a Day
- By: Sudhir Venkatesh
- Narrated by: Reg Rogers, Stephen J. Dubner
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,972
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Performance1,295
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Story1,306
The story of the young sociologist who studied a Chicago crack-dealing gang from the inside captured the world's attention when it was first described in Freakonomics. Gang Leader for a Day is the fascinating full story of how Sudhir Venkatesh managed to gain entrée into the gang, what he...
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Listen to this one first
- By DanO on 01-15-08
By: Sudhir Venkatesh
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There Are No Children Here
- The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America
- By: Alex Kotlowitz
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,729
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Performance1,523
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Story1,524
This national best-seller chronicles the true story of two brothers coming of age in the Henry Horner public housing complex in Chicago. Lafeyette and Pharoah Rivers are 11 and nine years old when the story begins in the summer of 1987. Living with their mother and six siblings, they struggle against grinding poverty, gun violence, gang influences, overzealous police officers, and overburdened and neglectful bureaucracies. Immersed in their lives for two years, Kotlowitz brings us this classic rendering of growing up poor in America’s cities.
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A DEPRESSING ACCOUNT OF REAL LIFE IN THE U.S.
- By The Louligan on 03-04-15
By: Alex Kotlowitz
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I Deliver Parcels in Beijing
- One Man's Quest to Speak the Truth About the Global Gig Economy
- By: Hu Anyan, Jack Hargreaves - translator
- Narrated by: Feodor Chin
- Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall27
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Performance26
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Story26
In 2023, I Deliver Parcels in Beijing became a literary sensation of the year in China. The story of a worker doing odd jobs in various anonymous mega-cities, Hu Anyan’s voice hit a nerve with a generation of young Chinese who feel at odds with an ever-growing pressure to perform and succeed.
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The difference
- By Amazon Customer on 02-03-26
By: Hu Anyan, and others
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Life After Cars
- Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile
- By: Sarah Goodyear, Doug Gordon, Aaron Naparstek
- Narrated by: Sarah Goodyear, Doug Gordon
- Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall24
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Performance24
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Story24
NATIONAL BESTSELLER From the hosts of The War on Cars podcast, a searing indictment of how cars ruin everything—and what we can do to fight back When the very first cars rolled off production lines, they were a technological marvel, predicted to make life easier and better for all Americans...
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Good use of dual narrators
- By D. Hoisington on 10-22-25
By: Sarah Goodyear, and others
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A Child of the East End
- By: Jean Fullerton
- Narrated by: Annie Aldington
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall6
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Performance6
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Story6
Life in Cockney London was tough in the post-war years. The government's broken promises had led to a chronic housing shortage, rampant crime and families living in squalor. But one thing prevailed: the unbeatable spirit of the East End, a tight-knit community who pulled through the dark times with humour and heart. Drawing on both family history and her own memories of growing up in the 1950s and '60s, as well as her working life as a district nurse and local police officer, Jean Fullerton vividly depicts this fascinating part of London.
By: Jean Fullerton
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Escaping the Housing Trap
- The Strong Towns Response to the Housing Crisis
- By: Charles L. Marohn Jr., Daniel Herriges
- Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall46
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Performance44
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Story44
Escaping the Housing Trap is the must-have resource for everyone with a stake in the future of housing in America-and that means everyone. Listeners will find discussions of housing as an investment and how the country's neighborhoods are being transformed by the introduction of large amounts of investment; explorations of housing as shelter, including discussions of zoning policy and NIMBYism; and a comprehensive overview of the Strong Towns approach to solving the American housing crisis.
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A timely book about being a part of local change for the better
- By Daniel A Weisler on 10-01-24
By: Charles L. Marohn Jr., and others
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The Mirage Factory
- Illusion, Imagination, and the Invention of Los Angeles
- By: Gary Krist
- Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
- Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall342
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Performance299
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Story299
From bestselling author Gary Krist, the story of the metropolis that never should have been and the visionaries who dreamed it into reality Little more than a century ago, the southern coast of California—bone-dry, harbor-less, isolated by deserts and mountain ranges—seemed destined to...
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Great start, weak completion
- By steve on 05-11-21
By: Gary Krist