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Corbin Addison explores the human stories behind global labor sourcing in the international fashion industry in this thrilling, shocking and compelling tale.
A beloved American corporation with an explosive secret. A disgraced former journalist looking for redemption. A corporate executive with nothing left to lose.
In Dhaka, Bangladesh, a garment factory burns to the ground, claiming the lives of hundreds of workers, mostly young women. Amid the rubble a bystander captures a heart-stopping image - a teenage girl lying in the dirt, her body broken by a multi-tory fall, and over her mouth a mask of fabric bearing the label of one of America's largest retailers, Presto Omnishops Corporation. When the photo goes viral, it fans the flames of a decades-old controversy about sweatshops, labor rights, and the ethics of globalization.
A year later, in Washington, DC, Joshua Griswold, a disgraced former journalist for the Washington Post, receives an anonymous summons from a corporate whistleblower promising information about Presto. There, to Griswold's astonishment, he meets Cameron Alexander, Presto's longtime general counsel. Alexander, who has secrets of his own, offers Griswold confidential information about Presto's apparel supply chain. For Griswold the challenge of exposing Presto's willful negligence is irresistible, as is the chance, however slight, at redemption. Deploying his old journalistic skills, he builds a historic case against Presto, setting the stage for a war in the courtroom and in the media that Griswold is determined to win - both to salvage his reputation and to provoke a revolution of conscience in Presto's boardroom that could change the course of the fashion industry across the globe.
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Roan West was born with an extraordinary gift: he can relive memories across centuries and glean history first-hand. A highly skilled psychometrist, Roan is able to perceive the past of any object he touches. He has spent his life as a voyeur, using his talents to find and sell valuable antiques, but his quiet life in New Orleans is about to change. Stuart, a fellow pyschometrist and Roan's close friend, has just unearthed several "ooparts": out-of-place artifacts that challenge recorded history....
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The Patriots
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Florence Fein grows up in Brooklyn in the 1930s, in a family that is gaining a foothold in the middle class. At City College she becomes engaged politically with the left-leaning student groups, and eventually, in the midst of the Depression, she takes a job with a trade organization that has a position for her in Moscow. There, she falls in love with another expatriate American and has a son. Soon after, Florence is sent to a work camp and her son to an orphanage.
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Point of View of characters, past and present collide
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Transmission, Hari Kunzru's new novel of love and lunacy, immigration and immunity, introduces a daydreaming Indian computer geek whose luxurious fantasies about life in America are shaken when he accepts a California job offer.
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Thoroughly Enjoyable
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Erica Sparks is a beautiful and ambitious reporter who has just landed her dream job at Global News Network in New York. And while it was hard to leave Jenny, her cherished eight-year-old daughter, in the custody of her ex-husband, Erica is determined to succeed in the cutthroat world of big-time broadcasting. On her very first assignment, Erica inadvertently witnesses - and films - a horrific tragedy, scooping all the other networks. Mere weeks later, another tragedy strikes - again, right in front of Erica and her cameras. Her career skyrockets overnight, but Erica is troubled.
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Won't buy any more of Lis Whiel's books
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By: Lis Wiehl, and others
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A tragic accident in the Carolina mountains leaves a young man paralyzed and in a coma. Soon a fierce legal battle erupts between the man's wife who wants to terminate life support and the young man's father who wants to keep his son alive at all costs.
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Three-time Christy Award winner Davis Bunn has sold more than six million copies of his books. In Book of Dreams, psychiatrist Dr. Elena Burroughs begins treating a mysterious woman. Elena soon becomes convinced that ominous forces are at work in the woman’s life, leading her to question how a person can truly understand - and fulfill - the will of God.
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Harry Strand is living a quiet life as an art dealer in Houston. But until four years ago, he was an intelligence agent for the foreign service. His nemesis was Schrade, a ruthless international criminal who arranged the "accident" that killed Harry's wife. Now Harry has met a mysterious, beautiful woman who may have critical information about Schrade. And Harry begins to bait a trap for his enemy. The more Harry learns, however, the more he feels pulled into a much deeper conspiracy.
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Excellent and intriguing!
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Adam Lang has been Britain’s longest serving—and most controversial—prime minister of the last half century. As pressure mounts for Lang to complete this memoirs, he hires a professional ghostwriter to finish the book. As he sets to work, the ghostwriter discovers many more secrets than Lang intends to reveal, secrets with the power to alter world politics - secrets with the power to kill.
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Too close to the truth?
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Madeline, Avery, and Nikki are strangers to each other, but they have one thing in common. They each wake up one morning to discover their life savings have vanished, along with their trusted financial manager - leaving them with nothing but co-ownership of a ramshackle beachfront house. Throwing their lots in together, they take on the challenge of restoring the historic property. But just as they begin to reinvent themselves and discover the power of friendship, secrets threaten to tear down their trust.
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Taylor Lockwood spends her days working as a paralegal in one of New York's preeminent Wall Street law firms and her nights playing jazz piano anyplace she can. But the rhythm of her life is disrupted when attorney Mitchell Reece requests her help in locating a stolen document that could cost him not only the multimillion-dollar case he's defending but his career as well.
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Pathetic! I wasted a credit!
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Elizabeth Roffe, only child of one of the world's richest men, has it all; beauty, intelligence, innocence and youth. But when her father dies, she discovers that she has inherited not only his vast pharmaceutical company, with offices and factories all over the world, but also an unspeakable terror that threatens to destroy the business. As she struggles to save the company that took her family four generations to build, she realizes that she herself is the target of an unknown assassin.
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Awful, I want my credit back.
- By Jojo on 12-23-19
By: Sidney Sheldon
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- User
- 07-02-20
An important issue but...
While I think it's amazing that Corban Addison is drawing attention to a worldwide issue about the horrors of the clothing industry, I felt the story could be improved. I loved his previous books and have read all of them, especially a walk across the sun, but this one fell short for me. Also I didn't love the narrator. He could have been more animated. I felt like there wasn't a lot of character development unfortunately in this story and would have loved to hear more of the story from other perspectives (perhaps a females perspective) besides the 2 main characters, Joshua and Cameron both American men. Perhaps that's why I enjoyed a walk across the sun more. It was difficult to follow the story line for me as I would pick it up and go back to it often and it jumps around a lot. Overall, it was difficult to finish for me, especially this audio book version. I will still read his new work if he publishes again, because I like his themes of social justice and privilege and often find I learn a lot while reading.
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- Mariechen
- 07-20-18
Current, relevant read
At the beginning I wasn't sure if this was fiction, because it seemed so real. I suppose that's because this novel IS real, even if the characters are fictionalised. There is no pretty ending, and it ended up making me feel pretty impotent - but it was a magnificent read. I highly recommend it.
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- Patrick Keyes
- 12-14-21
Compelling and crucial
It’s important to see and feel the world in these pages. I’ve often thought of what it would have been like to have been raised in early 19th century America, taking slavery as a given, or turning our thoughts away from it if we found it too unnerving to have in mind. How different are we today as we shop for clothes at the lowest price, wondering how they can even afford to ship, much less manufacture the clothes at the price we pay. Happy for the bargain.
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- Karen Antoni
- 11-28-20
LOVED this book!! It was frightenly informative.
This book was so enlightening about the textile industry. I think many of us suspected much of what was discussed in the book but tying it to actual real life people (albeit fictional) was what I needed to take action.
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- Fob 06
- 02-21-17
Excellent
This was an excellent and we'll told story of the struggles those making our clothes have. It has plummeted me into an ethical delema when I go shopping now. Read/listen to this book but prepare to be challenged.
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- Amazon Customer
- 04-17-20
Riveting
I was captivated within the first 15 mins! The heart breaking stories evolved and touched my heart in a way that caused me to take action!
Thank you for such an enlightening story!
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- C. R.Thomas
- 08-09-17
Second Corbin Addison book
Well written, well researched and well put together. Abuse is not a surprise to most readers I am sure, but the process that creates the abuse is one for consumers to think about.
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- Anonymous User
- 04-25-22
Raise awareness
I really appreciate the way this book raised awareness about such a huge problem in our world today. It’s rarely talked about, and this story still lives on in real life. I plan to check out the websites for more information and plan to shop thrift stores as much as possible instead of accidentally supporting fast fashion.
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- Zee
- 11-14-17
Didn't want the book to end!
Really great listen! I love Addison's work and this might be my favorite of his. I was so sad when the story ended. The narrator did a really amazing job as well! "AUDIBLE 20 REVIEW SWEEPSTAKES ENTRY”
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- Daryl
- 01-29-18
I Wanted to Like This
This is my third Corban Addison book, and I have previously enjoyed his writing.
I can't quite put my finger on why this book didn't capture me as much as "A Walk Across the Sun" or "The Garden of Burning Sand".
It started off with a vivid and terrifying description of a factory fire and the public relations nightmare that ensued.
And then we meet a group of corrupt business executives and "heroes" facing tragedy.
And they talk.
And talk.
And talk.
I've gotten two thirds of the way through the book, which shifts forward and then backward and then forward with another character, and the "good guys" are blackmailing the corrupt ones (most of whom are of Bangladeshi or Middle Eastern descent).
I got to the point where I got bogged down with all the tragedy and the conversation and the blackmail, and I don't think that's the direction the author wanted me to go.
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