The Mole People
Life in the Tunnels Beneath New York City
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Tanya Eby
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Jennifer Toth
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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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- Narrado por: Michael Patrick MacDonald
- Duración: 8 h y 32 m
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The anti-busing riots of 1974 forever changed Southie, Boston's working-class Irish community, branding it as a violent, racist enclave. Michael Patrick MacDonald grew up in Southie's Old Colony housing project. He describes the way this world within a world felt to the troubled yet keenly gifted observer he was even as a child. But the threats - poverty, drugs, a shadowy gangster world - were real. All Souls is heartbreaking testimony to lives lost too early, and the story of how a place so filled with pain could still be "the best place in the world".
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5 out of 5 stars
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this book broke me in the best way
- De anon en 02-14-23
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The Postmortal
- A Novel
- De: Drew Magary
- Narrado por: Johnny Heller
- Duración: 10 h y 54 m
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In a world where an anti-aging cure is available worldwide, immortality comes with its own unique problems. John Farrell is about to get "The Cure". Old age can never kill him now. The only problem is, everything else still can.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Interesting concept but bleak and wearing
- De Amazon Customer en 05-15-12
De: Drew Magary
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What Storm, What Thunder
- De: Myriam J.A. Chancy
- Narrado por: Ella Turenne
- Duración: 11 h
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 60
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The Earth had buckled, and, in that movement, all that was not in its place fell upon the Earth’s children, upon the blameless as well as the guilty, without discrimination. At the end of a long sweltering day, as markets and businesses begin to close for the evening, an earthquake of 7.0 magnitude shakes the capital of Haiti, Port-au-Prince. Award-winning author Myriam J. A. Chancy masterfully charts the inner lives of the characters affected by the disaster
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5 out of 5 stars
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We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.
- De AuthorAnnaBella en 03-15-22
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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: Lusabilo, a determined waste picker; Kapula, a burned-out brothel worker; Moonga, a former rock crusher turned beggar; and Timo, an ambitious gang leader. These children navigate the violent and poverty-stricken underworld of Lusaka, one of Africa’s fastest growing cities.
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5 out of 5 stars
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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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Walking to Listen
- 4,000 Miles Across America, One Story at a Time
- De: Andrew Forsthoefel
- Narrado por: Andrew Forsthoefel
- Duración: 13 h y 39 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 406
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At 23, Andrew Forsthoefel headed out the back door of his home in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, with a backpack, an audio recorder, his copies of Whitman and Rilke, and a sign that read "Walking to Listen". He had just graduated from Middlebury College and was ready to begin his adult life, but he didn't know how. So he decided to take a cross-country quest for guidance, one where everyone he met would be his guide. In the year that followed, he faced an Appalachian winter and a Mojave summer. He met beasts inside: fear, loneliness, doubt.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Transcends the typical trekking story
- De barefoot rabbit en 08-07-18
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American Rust
- De: Philipp Meyer
- Narrado por: Tom Stechschulte
- Duración: 12 h y 48 m
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Set in a beautiful but economically devastated Pennsylvania steel town, American Rust is a novel of the lost American dream and the desperation-as well as the acts of friendship, loyalty, and love-that arise from its loss. From local bars to train yards to prison, it is the story of two young men, bound to the town by family, responsibility, inertia, and the beauty around them, who dream of a future beyond the factories and abandoned homes.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Web of Despair and Desperation
- De Darwin8u en 07-16-12
De: Philipp Meyer
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Lost Memory of Skin
- De: Russell Banks
- Narrado por: Scott Shepherd
- Duración: 13 h y 42 m
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Suspended in a strangely modern-day version of limbo, the young man at the center of Russell Banks’s uncompromising and morally complex new novel must create a life for himself in the wake of incarceration. Known in his new identity only as the Kid, and on probation after doing time for a liaison with an underage girl, he is shackled to a GPS monitoring device and forbidden to live within 2,500 feet of anywhere children might gather. With nowhere else to go, the Kid takes up residence under a south Florida causeway, in a makeshift encampment with other convicted sex offenders.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing "Must Read" Tale of (In)Justice in America
- De Ellen H. Anderson en 10-15-11
De: Russell Banks
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Girls Like Us
- Fighting for a World Where Girls Are Not for Sale, an Activist Finds Her Calling and Heals Herself
- De: Rachel Lloyd
- Narrado por: Rachel Lloyd
- Duración: 9 h y 31 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 188
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During her teens, Rachel Lloyd ended up a victim of commercial sexual exploitation. With time, through incredible resilience, and with the help of a local church community, she finally broke free of her pimp and her past and devoted herself to helping other young girls escape "the life". In Girls Like Us, Lloyd reveals the dark world of commercial sex trafficking in cinematic detail and tells the story of her groundbreaking nonprofit organization: GEMS.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Rachel Lloyd is an Amazing Woman
- De joan m. en 01-14-22
De: Rachel Lloyd
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The Pursuit of Happyness (Abridged)
- De: Chris Gardner
- Narrado por: Andre Blake
- Duración: 5 h y 42 m
- Versión resumida
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 422
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At the age of 20, Chris Gardner arrived in San Francisco to pursue a promising career in medicine. However, he surprised everyone and himself by setting his sights on the competitive world of high finance. Yet no sooner had he landed an entry-level position at a prestigious firm, Gardner found himself caught in a web of incredibly challenging circumstances that left him part of the city's working homeless with his toddler son.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very Good Story!
- De Lito Da Critic en 06-02-06
De: Chris Gardner
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The Eden Express
- A Memoir of Insanity
- De: Mark Vonnegut
- Narrado por: Pete Cross
- Duración: 9 h y 53 m
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Mark Vonnegut set out in search of Eden with his VW bug, his girlfriend, his dog, and his ideals, but genetic predisposition and a whole lot of shit going down made him crazy in a culture that told him mental illness is a myth and schizophrenia is a sane response to an insane society. Describing his experiences during the late '60s and early '70s, Eden Express reveals how Mark went from being a recent college grad who was in love and living communally on a farm to having nervous breakdowns.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Touches the challenges of human condition
- De Glenn Ainsworth en 06-23-23
De: Mark Vonnegut
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Things We Lost in the Fire
- Stories
- De: Mariana Enriquez
- Narrado por: Tanya Eby
- Duración: 5 h y 46 m
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An arresting collection of short stories, reminiscent of Shirley Jackson and Julio Cortazar, by an exciting new international talent.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great short story collection
- De Gatster en 06-15-17
De: Mariana Enriquez
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Inside a Silver Box
- De: Walter Mosley
- Narrado por: Dion Graham
- Duración: 6 h y 54 m
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Walter Mosley's talent knows no bounds. Inside a Silver Box continues to explore the cosmic questions entertainingly discussed in his Crosstown to Oblivion. From life's meaning to the nature of good and evil, Mosley takes listeners on a speculative journey beyond reality. In Inside a Silver Box, two people brought together by a horrific act are united in a common cause by the powers of the Silver Box.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Another good Mosley book
- De James Ford en 03-04-15
De: Walter Mosley
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Gang Leader for a Day
- A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets
- De: Sudhir Venkatesh
- Narrado por: Reg Rogers, Sudhir Venkatesh, Stephen J. Dubner
- Duración: 8 h y 42 m
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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 Venkatest managed to gain entree into the gang, what he learned, and how his method revolutionized the academic establishment.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Listen to this one first
- De DanO en 01-15-08
De: Sudhir Venkatesh
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The Darling
- De: Russell Banks
- Narrado por: Mary Beth Hurt
- Duración: 14 h y 16 m
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The Darling is Hannah Musgrave's story, told emotionally and convincingly years later by Hannah herself. A political radical and member of the Weather Underground, Hannah has fled America to West Africa, where she and her Liberian husband become friends and colleagues of Charles Taylor, the notorious warlord and now ex-president of Liberia. When Taylor leaves for the United States in an effort to escape embezzlement charges, he's immediately placed in prison.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Complex and compelling
- De Ellen H. Anderson en 02-05-05
De: Russell Banks
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Unforgetting
- A Memoir of Family, Migration, Gangs, and Revolution in the Americas
- De: Roberto Lovato
- Narrado por: Roberto Lovato
- Duración: 8 h y 46 m
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An urgent, no-holds-barred tale of gang life, guerrilla warfare, intergenerational trauma, and interconnected violence between the United States and El Salvador, Roberto Lovato’s memoir excavates family history and reveals the intimate stories beneath headlines about gang violence and mass Central American migration, one of the most important, yet least-understood humanitarian crises of our time - and one in which the perspectives of Central Americans in the United States have been silenced and forgotten.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Difficult to hear but important to know.
- De M. Lindquist en 12-18-20
De: Roberto Lovato
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The Upside
- A Memoir
- De: Abdel Sellou
- Narrado por: Ray Chase
- Duración: 5 h y 45 m
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In 1992, Count Phillippe Pozzo di Borgo, on the heels of his wife's diagnosis with a terminal illness, suffered a paragliding accident that left him a quadriplegic. Forty-two years old, trapped inside his luxurious Paris town house, he was an outcast for the first time in his life. Abdel, an unemployed Algerian immigrant who had been an outcast for his entire existence, would become Phillipe's unlikely caretaker. Quick-thinking, unsentimental, and more than a little wild, Abdel surprises both himself and his employer.
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5 out of 5 stars
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loved it
- De RockyDog en 01-31-19
De: Abdel Sellou
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Who Killed My Father
- De: Édouard Louis
- Narrado por: Edouard Louis
- Duración: 1 h y 39 m
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Who Killed My Father rips into France’s long neglect of the working class and its overt contempt for the poor, accusing the complacent French - at the minimum - of negligent homicide. The author goes to visit the ugly gray town of his childhood to see his dying father, barely 50 years old, who can hardly walk or breathe: “You belong to the category of humans whom politics consigns to an early death.” It’s as simple as that.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Powerful. Poetic. Sparse. Piercing.
- De Theophile Jones en 06-01-23
De: Édouard Louis
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre The Mole People
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- Ya'at'eeh
- 06-09-23
Great book
A very great ethnography of a subculture of homelessness, or houselessness, that is full of moving stories of a wide variety of what humanity is.
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- Shane DZ
- 04-06-20
Compelling Read.
She writes about the real experiences of the people living under NYC. And I couldn't stop reading (listening). A truer drama you will never encounter. Especially in American society today when too many folks, children and veterans, are homeless.
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- Cynthia
- 02-26-22
intriguing account of NYC's underground homeless
this puts human faces to the homeless and demonstrates how addiction, mental illness and a sometimes broken system forces people into the underground.
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- Matthew J Meyers
- 10-30-19
Powerful.
This book really touched me. Being a born and raised resident of New York City and riding the subway, I always wondered where the homeless go
or really live. This. book showed them as people not crazy,scary,monsters. The lives of PEOPLE
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- Chris
- 10-21-24
As a sociologist, I found this story quite compelling.
A very well researched & fascinating look at lives below the surface. Great book to listen to on a long trip.
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- M. Rogers
- 06-19-21
Wow. Just wow
Fascinating piece of social anthropology. Thought provoking. Yet another set of social castes worth exploring
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- Maria Cruz
- 10-25-23
Homeless are people too
Amazing narration.
When you walk down NY, and you see a crazy man on the street or people drug out of their wits, it’s hard to remember that these folks are human too, that person is someone’s child, someone’s parent, we don’t know how or why they’re in the situation they’re, and we shouldn’t judged them for it, I don’t think I’m any better than them
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