Showing results for "The City" in Poverty & Homelessness
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Strumpet City
- Written by: James Plunkett
- Narrated by: John Keating
- Length: 22 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Centering on the seminal lockout of 20,000 workers in Dublin in 1913, Strumpet City by Irish writer James Plunkett encompasses a wide sweep of city life. From the destitution of "Rashers" Tierney, the poorest of the poor, to the solid, aspirant respectability of Fitz and Mary, the priestly life of Father O'Connor, and the upper-class world of Yearling and the Bradshaws, it paints a portrait of a city of stark contrasts, with an urban working class mired in vicious poverty. To hear the book is to immerse yourself in social and historical writing akin to Chekhov and Tolstoy.
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Strumpet City
- Narrated by: John Keating
- Length: 22 hrs and 31 mins
- Release Date: 06-09-22
- Language: English
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Evicted
- Poverty and Profit in the American City
- Written by: Matthew Desmond
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of Evicted by Mathew Desomond, read by Dion Graham. Arleen spends nearly all her money on rent but is kicked out with her kids in Milwaukee's coldest winter for years. Doreen's home is so filthy her family call it 'the rat hole'...
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Evicted
- Poverty and Profit in the American City
- Narrated by: Dion Graham
- Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
- Release Date: 14-03-16
- Language: English
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Five Days
- The Fiery Reckoning of an American City
- Written by: Erica L. Green, Wes Moore
- Narrated by: Wes Moore
- Length: 7 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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When Freddie Gray was arrested for possessing an 'illegal knife' in April 2015, he was, by eyewitness accounts that video evidence later confirmed, treated 'roughly' as police loaded him into a vehicle. By the end of his trip in the police van, Gray was in a coma from which he would never recover. In the wake of a long history of police abuse in Baltimore, this killing felt like the final straw - it led to a week of protests, then five days described alternately as a riot or an uprising that set the entire city on edge and caught the nation's attention.
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The Corner
- A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood
- Written by: David Simon, Edward Burns
- Narrated by: Dion Graham, David Simon
- Length: 25 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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The crime-infested intersection of West Fayette and Monroe Streets is well-known--and cautiously avoided--by most of Baltimore. But this notorious corner's 24-hour open-air drug market provides the economic fuel for a dying neighborhood. David Simon, an award-winning author and crime reporter...
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The Corner
- A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood
- Narrated by: Dion Graham, David Simon
- Length: 25 hrs and 28 mins
- Release Date: 06-10-20
- Language: English
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The Mole People
- Life in the Tunnels Beneath New York City
- Written by: Jennifer Toth
- Narrated by: Tanya Eby
- Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Thousands of people live in the subway, railroad, and sewage tunnels that form the bowels of New York City. This audiobook is about them, the so-called mole people, living alone and in communities, in subway tunnels, and below subway platforms. It is about how and why people move underground, who they are, and what they have to say about their lives and the "topside" world they've left behind.
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The Mole People
- Life in the Tunnels Beneath New York City
- Narrated by: Tanya Eby
- Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
- Release Date: 15-10-19
- Language: English
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Skid Road
- On the Frontier of Health and Homelessness in an American City
- Written by: Josephine Ensign
- Narrated by: Holly Adams
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
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The sometimes fragmentary tales of these people, their lives and deaths, are not included in official histories of a place. How, Ensign asks, has a large, socially progressive city like Seattle responded to the health needs of people marginalized by poverty, mental illness, addiction, racial/ethnic/sexual identities, and homelessness? Drawing on interviews and extensive research, Ensign shares a diversity of voices within contemporary health care and public policy debates.
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Skid Road
- On the Frontier of Health and Homelessness in an American City
- Narrated by: Holly Adams
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
- Release Date: 17-08-21
- Language: English
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The House on Henry Street
- The Enduring Life of a Lower East Side Settlement
- Written by: Ellen M. Snyder-Grenier
- Narrated by: Kate Mulligan
- Length: 7 hrs and 3 mins
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On a cold March day in 1893, 26-year-old nurse Lillian Wald rushed through the poverty-stricken streets of New York’s Lower East Side to a squalid bedroom where a young mother lay dying -abandoned by her doctor because she could not pay his fee. The misery in the room and the walk to reach it inspired Wald to establish Henry Street Settlement, which would become one of the most influential social welfare organizations in American history.
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The House on Henry Street
- The Enduring Life of a Lower East Side Settlement
- Narrated by: Kate Mulligan
- Length: 7 hrs and 3 mins
- Release Date: 16-06-20
- Language: English
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