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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: 10-04-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 432 ratings
    • An explosive, deeply reported exposé of McKinsey & Company, the international consulting firm that advises corporations and governments, that highlights the often drastic impact of its work on employees and citizens around the world....

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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: 09-21-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 206 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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    • 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: 07-16-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 913 ratings
    • The New York Times' Mark Leibovich, presents a blistering, penetrating, jaw-dropping - and often hysterical - look at Washington’s incestuous "media industrial complex"....

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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: 10-06-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12 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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    • 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: 05-14-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 59 ratings
    • 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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    • Reckoning with What Remains
    • By: Kerri Arsenault
    • Narrated by: Kerri Arsenault
    • Length: 12 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 09-01-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 85 ratings
    • 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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    • Reimagining Discarded America
    • By: Michelle Wilde Anderson
    • Narrated by: Jean Ann Douglass
    • Length: 12 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 06-21-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • 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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    • The Explosive Beginning of School Desegregation
    • By: Rachel Louise Martin
    • Narrated by: Janina Edwards, Megan Tusing
    • Length: 10 hrs
    • Release date: 06-13-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • In graduate school, Rachel Martin was sent to a small town in the foothills of the Appalachians, where locals wanted to build a museum to commemorate the events of September 1956, when Clinton High School became the first school in the former Confederacy to attempt court mandated desegregation....

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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: 05-21-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • 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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    • Central Banks, Instability, and Avoiding the Next Collapse
    • By: Mohamed A. El-Erian
    • Narrated by: Dan Woren
    • Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 03-29-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 274 ratings
    • Our current economic path is coming to an end. The signposts are all around us: sluggish growth, rising inequality, stubbornly high pockets of unemployment, and jittery financial markets, to name a few. Soon we will reach a fork in the road....

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    • Life and Death in a Tibetan Town
    • By: Barbara Demick
    • Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
    • Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 07-28-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 214 ratings
    • A gripping portrait of modern Tibet told through the lives of its people, from the best-selling author of Nothing to Envy....

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    • The Untold Story of the Women Who Took on the Richest Man in the World - and Won
    • By: David W. Moore
    • Narrated by: Rebecca Gibel
    • Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 06-11-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • In the fall of 1973, the Greek oil shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis, husband of President John F. Kennedy's widow, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, and arguably the richest man in the world, proposed to build an oil refinery on the narrow New Hampshire coast, in the town of Durham....

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    • By: Eamonn McCann
    • Narrated by: Eamonn McCann
    • Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 11-27-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 41 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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    • Life, Death, and Dollars in a Small American Town
    • By: Brian Alexander
    • Narrated by: Nick Landrum
    • Length: 14 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 03-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 140 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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    • By: Desire Night
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 4 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 11-14-24
    • Language: English
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    • For generations, the people of Watertown, New York, have been haunted by the mysterious caves that lurk beneath the cliffs along the Black River. ...

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    • The 1% Economy and the Shattering of the All-American Town
    • By: Brian Alexander
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 04-11-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 106 ratings
    • The Anchor Hocking Glass Company, once the world's largest maker of glass tableware, was the base on which Lancaster's society was built....

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    • An Alaskan Adventure in Small-Town Politics
    • By: Heather Lende
    • Narrated by: Karen White
    • Length: 9 hrs
    • Release date: 08-15-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • Following the 2016 election, writer Heather Lende was one of the thousands of women inspired to take a more active role in politics. Though her entire campaign for assembly member in Haines, Alaska, cost less than $1,000, she won....

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    • My Son's Murder in Laramie, and a World Transformed
    • By: Judy Shepard
    • Narrated by: Judy Shepard
    • Length: 5 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 08-20-09
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 115 ratings
    • The mother of Matthew Shepard shares her story about her son's death and the choice she made to become an international gay rights activist....

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    • My Life in Twelve Towns and the Devastating Battle for a White America
    • By: Sofia Ali-Khan
    • Narrated by: Kelsey Jaffer
    • Length: 16 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 07-05-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • A leading advocate for social justice excavates the history of forced migration in the twelve American towns she’s called home, revealing how White supremacy has fundamentally shaped the nation....

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