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Bestsellers
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Poverty, by America
- De: Matthew Desmond
- Narrado por: Dion Graham
- Duración: 5 h y 40 m
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The United States, the richest country on earth, has more poverty than any other advanced democracy....
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A testimonial based on facts and witness
- De Alonzo Nightjar en 03-27-23
De: Matthew Desmond
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Hillbilly Elegy
- A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
- De: J. D. Vance
- Narrado por: J. D. Vance
- Duración: 6 h y 49 m
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Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis - that of white working-class Americans....
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In Mamaw's Contradictions Lay Great Wisdom
- De Cynthia en 11-20-16
De: J. D. Vance
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Evicted
- Poverty and Profit in the American City
- De: Matthew Desmond
- Narrado por: Dion Graham
- Duración: 11 h y 3 m
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In Evicted, Princeton sociologist and MacArthur “Genius” Matthew Desmond follows eight families in Milwaukee as they each struggle to keep a roof over their heads....
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Former Property Manager
- De Charla en 05-18-16
De: Matthew Desmond
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When Helping Hurts
- How to Alleviate Poverty Without Hurting the Poor...and Yourself
- De: Steve Corbett, Brian Fikkert
- Narrado por: Brendan Hunter
- Duración: 9 h y 13 m
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Poverty is much more than simply a lack of material resources, and it takes much more than donations and handouts to solve it....
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A must read
- De Diana Kamidi en 07-31-21
De: Steve Corbett, y otros
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Maid
- Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive
- De: Stephanie Land, Barbara Ehrenreich - foreword
- Narrado por: Stephanie Land
- Duración: 8 h y 34 m
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At 28, Stephanie Land's dreams of attending a university and becoming a writer quickly dissolved when a summer fling turned into an unplanned pregnancy. Before long, she found herself a single mother, scraping by as a housekeeper to make ends meet....
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Very engaging
- De NMwritergal en 01-24-19
De: Stephanie Land, y otros
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The Corner
- A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood
- De: David Simon, Edward Burns
- Narrado por: Dion Graham, David Simon
- Duración: 25 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
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The crime-infested intersection of West Fayette and Monroe Streets is well-known - and cautiously avoided - by most of Baltimore. But this notorious corner's 24-hour open-air drug market provides the economic fuel for a dying neighborhood....
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Insightful. A Must Read For Suburban Americans.
- De WitchCrafter en 06-01-21
De: David Simon, y otros
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Poverty, by America
- De: Matthew Desmond
- Narrado por: Dion Graham
- Duración: 5 h y 40 m
- Versión completa
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The United States, the richest country on earth, has more poverty than any other advanced democracy....
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A testimonial based on facts and witness
- De Alonzo Nightjar en 03-27-23
De: Matthew Desmond
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Hillbilly Elegy
- A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
- De: J. D. Vance
- Narrado por: J. D. Vance
- Duración: 6 h y 49 m
- Versión completa
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Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis - that of white working-class Americans....
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In Mamaw's Contradictions Lay Great Wisdom
- De Cynthia en 11-20-16
De: J. D. Vance
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Evicted
- Poverty and Profit in the American City
- De: Matthew Desmond
- Narrado por: Dion Graham
- Duración: 11 h y 3 m
- Versión completa
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In Evicted, Princeton sociologist and MacArthur “Genius” Matthew Desmond follows eight families in Milwaukee as they each struggle to keep a roof over their heads....
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Former Property Manager
- De Charla en 05-18-16
De: Matthew Desmond
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When Helping Hurts
- How to Alleviate Poverty Without Hurting the Poor...and Yourself
- De: Steve Corbett, Brian Fikkert
- Narrado por: Brendan Hunter
- Duración: 9 h y 13 m
- Versión completa
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Poverty is much more than simply a lack of material resources, and it takes much more than donations and handouts to solve it....
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A must read
- De Diana Kamidi en 07-31-21
De: Steve Corbett, y otros
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Maid
- Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive
- De: Stephanie Land, Barbara Ehrenreich - foreword
- Narrado por: Stephanie Land
- Duración: 8 h y 34 m
- Versión completa
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At 28, Stephanie Land's dreams of attending a university and becoming a writer quickly dissolved when a summer fling turned into an unplanned pregnancy. Before long, she found herself a single mother, scraping by as a housekeeper to make ends meet....
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Very engaging
- De NMwritergal en 01-24-19
De: Stephanie Land, y otros
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The Corner
- A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood
- De: David Simon, Edward Burns
- Narrado por: Dion Graham, David Simon
- Duración: 25 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
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The crime-infested intersection of West Fayette and Monroe Streets is well-known - and cautiously avoided - by most of Baltimore. But this notorious corner's 24-hour open-air drug market provides the economic fuel for a dying neighborhood....
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Insightful. A Must Read For Suburban Americans.
- De WitchCrafter en 06-01-21
De: David Simon, y otros
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Rough Sleepers
- Dr. Jim O’Connell’s Urgent Mission to Bring Healing to Homeless People
- De: Tracy Kidder
- Narrado por: Tracy Kidder
- Duración: 8 h y 41 m
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After Jim O’Connell graduated from Harvard Medical School and was nearing the end of his residency at Massachusetts General, the hospital’s chief of medicine made a proposal....
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The honesty
- De jim d metzker en 05-17-24
De: Tracy Kidder
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Behind the Beautiful Forevers
- Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
- De: Katherine Boo
- Narrado por: Sunil Malhotra
- Duración: 8 h y 16 m
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In this breathtaking book by Pulitzer Prize winner Katherine Boo, a bewildering age of global change and inequality is made human through the dramatic story of families striving toward a better life in Annawadi, a makeshift settlement in the shadow of luxury hotels....
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An Antidote for Shantaram
- De Dr. en 06-14-12
De: Katherine Boo
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Making Room
- Three Decades of Fighting for Beds, Belonging, and a Safe Place for LGBTQ Youth
- De: Carl Siciliano
- Narrado por: Carl Siciliano
- Duración: 9 h y 29 m
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From the founder of the nation’s largest housing program for homeless LGBTQ youth, a tender, uplifting account of his friendship with a nonbinary teenager and dozens of queer kids who inspired him to live a life of service and resistance....
De: Carl Siciliano
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The Great Displacement
- Climate Change and the Next American Migration
- De: Jake Bittle
- Narrado por: Matt Godfrey
- Duración: 10 h y 26 m
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A human-centered narrative with national scope, The Great Displacement is the untold story of climate migration in the United States—the personal stories of those experiencing displacement, the portraits of communities being torn apart by disaster, and the implications for all of us....
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Where we're headed
- De Dr. Stuart A. Blair en 03-09-23
De: Jake Bittle
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Invisible Child
- Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City
- De: Andrea Elliott
- Narrado por: Adenrele Ojo
- Duración: 21 h y 10 m
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Andrea Elliott follows eight dramatic years in the life of Dasani, a girl whose imagination is as soaring as the skyscrapers near her Brooklyn shelter, weaving the story of her childhood with the history of her ancestors, tracing their passage from slavery to the Great Migration north....
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Narration is completely over the top
- De Heather en 10-14-21
De: Andrea Elliott
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Poor
- Grit, Courage, and the Life-Changing Value of Self-Belief
- De: Katriona O'Sullivan
- Narrado por: Katriona O'Sullivan
- Duración: 6 h y 48 m
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As the middle of five kids growing up in dire poverty, the odds were low on Katriona O'Sullivan making anything of her life. Poor is the extraordinary story - moving, funny, brave, and sometimes startling - of how Katriona turned her life around....
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Great listen
- De Anonymous User en 08-21-23
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Same Kind of Different as Me
- A Modern-Day Slave, an International Art Dealer, and the Unlikely Woman Who Bound Them Together
- De: Ron Hall, Denver Moore, Lynn Vincent - contributor
- Narrado por: Daniel Butler, Barry Scott
- Duración: 9 h y 59 m
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A critically acclaimed #1 New York Times bestseller with more than one million copies in print and a major motion picture! Gritty with pain, betrayal, and brutality, this incredible true story also shines with an unexpected, life-changing love....
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Stays with me...
- De Rebekah Sue Carolla en 09-23-18
De: Ron Hall, y otros
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Homelessness Is a Housing Problem
- How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns
- De: Gregg Colburn, Clayton Page Aldern
- Narrado por: Adam Verner
- Duración: 6 h y 22 m
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Colburn and Aldern seek to explain the substantial regional variation in rates of homelessness in cities across the United States. In a departure from many analytical approaches, the authors shift their focus from the individual experiencing homelessness to the metropolitan area....
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NO PDF! NO CHARTS!
- De P. Dean en 06-02-23
De: Gregg Colburn, y otros
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A Place Called Home
- A Memoir
- De: David Ambroz
- Narrado por: David Ambroz
- Duración: 12 h y 8 m
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There are millions of homeless children in America today and in A Place Called Home, award-winning child welfare advocate David Ambroz writes about growing up homeless in New York for eleven years and his subsequent years in foster care....
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Very heart wrenching read, BUT
- De Everest Mom en 01-14-23
De: David Ambroz
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Tightrope
- Americans Reaching for Hope
- De: Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn
- Narrado por: Jennifer Garner, Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn
- Duración: 9 h y 43 m
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With stark poignancy and political dispassion, Tightrope draws us deep into an "other America". The authors tell this story, in part, through the lives of some of the children with whom Kristof grew up in rural Yamhill, Oregon....
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Conservatives hate liberals will love
- De vic en 02-03-20
De: Nicholas D. Kristof, y otros
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The Injustice of Place
- Uncovering the Legacy of Poverty in America
- De: Kathryn J. Edin, H. Luke Shaefer, Timothy J. Nelson
- Narrado por: Janina Edwards
- Duración: 9 h y 55 m
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Three of the nation’s top scholars – known for tackling key mysteries about poverty in America – turn their attention from the country’s poorest people to its poorest places....
De: Kathryn J. Edin, y otros
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High-Risers
- Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing
- De: Ben Austen
- Narrado por: Ron Butler
- Duración: 13 h y 33 m
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High-Risers braids personal narratives, city politics, and national history to tell the timely and epic story of Chicago's Cabrini-Green, America's most iconic public housing project....
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Little mention of accountability of the people getting the housing
- De Steve D Renz en 05-15-18
De: Ben Austen
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Alienated America
- Why Some Places Thrive While Others Collapse
- De: Timothy P. Carney
- Narrado por: Charles Constant
- Duración: 10 h y 25 m
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This hard-hitting analysis identifies the true factor behind the decline of the American dream: It is not purely the result of economics as the left claims, but the collapse of the institutions that made us successful, including marriage, church, and civic life....
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A good companion to Murray's Coming Apart
- De Marie en 03-18-19
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Under the Affluence
- Shaming the Poor, Praising the Rich, and Sacrificing the Future of America
- De: Tim Wise
- Narrado por: Tim Wise
- Duración: 11 h y 41 m
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In Under the Affluence, Tim Wise discusses a related issue: economic inequality and the demonization of those in need....
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An important point of view
- De Elliot Bennett en 04-05-24
De: Tim Wise
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Beneath the Neon: Life and Death in the Tunnels of Las Vegas
- De: Matthew O'Brien
- Narrado por: Alan Carlson
- Duración: 7 h y 26 m
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Armed with a flashlight, tape recorder, and expandable baton, Las Vegas CityLife writer-editor Matthew O'Brien explored the Las Vegas flood-control system for more than four years. This audiobook chronicles O'Brien's adventures in subterranean Vegas....
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Get really inside Las Vegas
- De cosmitron en 07-08-18
De: Matthew O'Brien
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Walking the Bowl
- A True Story of Murder and Survival Among the Street Children of Lusaka
- De: Chris Lockhart, Daniel Mulilo Chama
- Narrado por: Hlonela Ngqwebo
- Duración: 9 h y 7 m
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Based on years of investigative reporting and unprecedented fieldwork, Walking the Bowl immerses readers in the daily lives of four unforgettable characters....
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Amazing. Horrifying. But true.
- De Daniel W. Fox, Jr. en 03-23-22
De: Chris Lockhart, y otros
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When We Walk By
- Forgotten Humanity, Broken Systems, and the Role We Can Each Play in Ending Homelessness in America
- De: Kevin F. Adler, Donald W. Burnes, Amanda Banh - contributor, y otros
- Narrado por: Kevin F. Adler
- Duración: 9 h y 17 m
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When We Walk By takes an urgent look at homelessness in America, showing us what we lose—in ourselves and as a society—when we choose to walk past and ignore our neighbors in shelters, insecure housing, or on the streets....
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A must read!
- De Alyssa Bozekowski en 05-18-24
De: Kevin F. Adler, y otros
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The People of the Abyss
- De: Jack London
- Narrado por: John Stanbridge
- Duración: 5 h y 42 m
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"The People of the Abyss" (1903) is a book by Jack London about life in the East End of London in 1902. He wrote this first-hand account after living in the...
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As Fresh Today as a Century Ago
- De Rick en 12-10-17
De: Jack London
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Broke in America
- Seeing, Understanding, and Ending U.S. Poverty
- De: Joanne Samuel Goldblum, Colleen Shaddox, Bomani Jones - foreword
- Narrado por: Joanne Samuel Goldblum, Colleen Shaddox, JD Jackson
- Duración: 10 h y 45 m
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Water. Food. Housing. The most basic and crucial needs for survival, yet 40 percent of people in the United States don't have the resources to get them. With key policy changes, we could eradicate poverty in this country within our lifetime - but we need to get started now....
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very left leaning
- De Bert Sloan en 09-06-22
De: Joanne Samuel Goldblum, y otros
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Random Family
- Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx
- De: Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
- Narrado por: Roxana Ortega
- Duración: 20 h y 7 m
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In her extraordinary best seller, Adrian Nicole LeBlanc immerses listeners in the intricacies of the ghetto, revealing the true sagas lurking behind the headlines of gangsta glamour….
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The narrator ruined this book.
- De Ryan Martin en 10-21-18
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Workin' Our Way Home
- The Incredible True Story of a Homeless Ex-Con and a Grieving Millionaire Thrown Together to Save Each Other
- De: Ron Hall
- Narrado por: Barry Scott
- Duración: 8 h y 34 m
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"I saw his face." Deborah Hall's words launched the destiny of two men from very different worlds. Ron Hall was an international art dealer with upscale tastes; Denver Moore was a homeless drifter with a dangerous past. Millions have read about their unlikely bond....
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God is in control.
- De Amazon Customer en 04-08-18
De: Ron Hall
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If You See Them
- Young, Unhoused, and Alone in America.
- De: Vicki Sokolik
- Narrado por: Yinka Ladeinde, Jose Nateras, Wendy Tremont King
- Duración: 12 h y 35 m
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A moving exploration of the crisis of homeless youth—told through the inspiring stories of a woman on the frontlines and the kids themselves.
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Not what I thought it would be
- De Angel I. en 04-07-24
De: Vicki Sokolik
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Fear of Falling
- The Inner Life of the Middle Class
- De: Barbara Ehrenreich
- Narrado por: Carmela Marner, Molly Parker Myers
- Duración: 9 h y 37 m
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One of Barbara Ehrenreich's most classic and prophetic works, Fear of Falling closely examines the insecurities of the American middle class in an attempt to explain its turn to the right during the last two decades of the 20th century....
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Thirst
- A Story of Redemption, Compassion, and a Mission to Bring Clean Water to the World
- De: Scott Harrison, Lisa Sweetingham - contributor
- Narrado por: Scott Harrison
- Duración: 10 h y 14 m
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An inspiring personal story of redemption, second chances, and the transformative power within us all, from the founder and CEO of the nonprofit charity: water....
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Inspiring!
- De April Ackroyd en 10-07-18
De: Scott Harrison, y otros