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    • The Hidden Influence of the World's Most Powerful Consulting Firm
    • By: Walt Bogdanich, Michael Forsythe
    • Narrated by: Ari Fliakos
    • Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 06-10-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 179 ratings
    • A gripping narrative of secrecy, greed and corruption, this is the story of where and how business went wrong in the modern era....

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    • Transportation for a Strong Town
    • By: Charles L. Marohn Jr.
    • Narrated by: Christopher Douyard
    • Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 21-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • 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....

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    • By: Eamonn McCann
    • Narrated by: Eamonn McCann
    • Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 27-11-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 130 ratings
    • Eamonn McCann’s account of what it is like to grow up a Catholic in a Northern Irish ghetto - first published in 1974 - quickly became a classic account of the feelings generated by British rule....

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    • Africa’s Leading University in Decline
    • By: David Benatar
    • Narrated by: Martyn Swain
    • Length: 14 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 12-12-22
    • Language: English
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    • Destructive forces have been eroding the University of Cape Town, Africa’s leading university. This audiobook tells the sad, true tale of what has been transpiring....

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    • Two Parties and a Funeral - Plus, Plenty of Valet Parking! - in America’s Gilded Capital
    • By: Mark Leibovich
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 11 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 16-07-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • The New York Times's Mark Leibovich, presents a blistering, penetrating, jaw-dropping - and often hysterical - look at Washington’s incestuous "media industrial complex"....

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    • One Town's Fight over Race and Identity, and the New War for America's Classrooms
    • By: Mike Hixenbaugh
    • Narrated by: Mike Hixenbaugh
    • Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 14-05-24
    • Language: English
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    • The urgent, revelatory story of how a school board win for the conservative right in one Texas suburb inspired a Christian nationalist campaign now threatening to undermine public education in America.

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    • 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
    • Release date: 21-05-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • This book offers a serious, yet accessible, history of housing policy in the United States and explains how it led us to this point in time: where we face a market that is rigged against people who, only a few decades ago, could have been homeowners or stable, long-term rentals.

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    • Inside the Meth Fiefdoms, Rebel Hideouts and Bomb-Scarred Party Towns of Southeast Asia
    • By: Patrick Winn
    • Narrated by: Patrick Winn
    • Length: 13 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 19-11-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Essential to understanding Southeast Asia in the 21st century, Hello, Shadowlands reveals a booming underworld of organised crime across a region in flux....

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    • How One Small Town Banned Pesticides, Preserved Its Food Heritage, and Inspired a Movement
    • By: Philip Ackerman-Leist
    • Narrated by: Will Damron
    • Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 16-11-17
    • Language: English
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    • Mals, Italy, has long been known as the breadbasket of the Tyrol. But recently the tiny town became known for something else entirely. A Precautionary Tale tells us why, introducing readers....

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    • Life, Death, and Dollars in a Small American Town
    • By: Brian Alexander
    • Narrated by: Nick Landrum
    • Length: 14 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 09-03-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • The Hospital is an intimate, heart-wrenching portrait of one small hospital that reveals the magnitude of America’s health care crises....

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    • Reckoning with What Remains
    • By: Kerri Arsenault
    • Narrated by: Kerri Arsenault
    • Length: 12 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 01-09-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Kerri Arsenault grew up in the rural working class town of Mexico, Maine. For over 100 years, the community orbited around a paper mill that employs most townspeople, including three generations of Arsenault’s own family....

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    • By: Enrique Krauze
    • Narrated by: Miguel Ángel Álvarez
    • Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 18-11-21
    • Language: Spanish
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    • Enrique Krauze, en esta lúcida colección de ensayos advierte de los peligros de la acumulación del poder en una sola persona y sale en defensa de la democracia, el debate, la pluralidad y la tolerancia. En defensa de la libertad....

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    • One Town's Passage from Trauma to Hope
    • By: Gail Sheehy
    • Narrated by: Sandra Burr
    • Length: 17 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 24-10-08
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Middletown, America is a story of recovery and of the ways people finally learn to deal with seemingly insurmountable grief and an incomprehensible physical and financial disaster....

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    • Two Sisters and a Town's Toxic Legacy
    • By: Nancy A. Nichols
    • Narrated by: Tracy Pfau
    • Length: 4 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 25-03-10
    • Language: English
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    • Fulfilling a deathbed request, Nancy Nichols writes about the connection between the industrial pollution in their hometown and the rare cancer that was killing her sister, Sue.....

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    • By: Ma Jian
    • Narrated by: Carolina Zaccarini
    • Length: 12 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 02-06-17
    • Language: Italian
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    • Costretto all'esilio dal duca di Lu, Confucio disse: "Se la mia strada finisce, salirò su una zattera e mi lascerò portare verso il mare". E così Kongzi...

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    • Reimagining Discarded America
    • By: Michelle Wilde Anderson
    • Narrated by: Jean Ann Douglass
    • Length: 12 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 21-06-22
    • Language: English
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    • Urban law expert and author Michelle Wilde Anderson offers a sweeping and eye-opening study of wealth inequality and the dismantling of local government in four working-class US cities that passionately argues for reinvestment in people-centered leadership.

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    • Mary Church Terrell and the Struggle for Racial Justice in the Nation's Capital
    • By: Joan Quigley
    • Narrated by: Kate Reading
    • Length: 13 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 21-01-20
    • Language: English
    • 2 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • In Just Another Southern Town, Joan Quigley recounts an untold chapter of the civil rights movement: an epic battle to topple segregation in Washington, the symbolic home of American democracy. At the book’s heart, the formidable Mary Church Terrell and the test case she mounts....

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    • A Sharecropper and a College Girl Join the Struggle for Justice in Shaw, Mississippi
    • By: Lee Anna Sherman
    • Narrated by: Dasha Kelly Hamilton
    • Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 05-04-21
    • Language: English
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    • Part biography, part history, part love story, A Small Town Rises chronicles the lives of two civil rights activists who met in the tiny cotton town of Shaw at the tail end of the Mississippi Summer Project, the voting-rights campaign known as Freedom Summer....

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    • Fracking, Freedom, and Community in an American Town
    • By: Colin Jerolmack
    • Narrated by: L.J. Ganser
    • Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 20-04-21
    • Language: English
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    • Up to Heaven and Down to Hell is a riveting portrait of a rural Pennsylvania town at the center of the fracking controversy....

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