Town Politics

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    • A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity
    • By: Charles L. Marohn Jr.
    • Narrated by: Matthew Boston
    • Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 10-28-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 464 ratings
    • Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Build American Prosperity is a book of forward-thinking ideas that breaks with modern wisdom to present a new vision of urban development in the United States....

    Regular price: $17.19

    • Slough House, Book 9
    • By: Mick Herron
    • Series: Slough House, Book 9
    • Length: 11 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 09-09-25
    • Language: English
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    • The bad spies of Slough House are caught in a deadly battle between MI5's secret past and its murky future in this gripping, hilarious, and heartbreaking thriller by Mick Herron, “the le Carré of the future” (BBC).

    Regular price: $20.99

    • The Fantastical Saga of Oklahoma City, its Chaotic Founding... its Purloined Basketball Team, and the Dream of Becoming a World-class Metropolis
    • By: Sam Anderson
    • Narrated by: Sam Anderson
    • Length: 14 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 08-21-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,014 ratings
    • Oklahoma City was born from chaos. It was founded in a bizarre but momentous "Land Run" in 1889, when thousands of people lined up along the borders of Oklahoma Territory and rushed in at noon to stake their claims. Since then, it has been a city torn...

    Regular price: $22.50

    • 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 458 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....

    Regular price: $20.25

    • A Town, a Team, and a Dream
    • By: H. G. Bissinger
    • Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte
    • Length: 14 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 12-03-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,317 ratings
    • Socially and racially divided, Odessa isn't known to be a place big on dreams, but every Friday night from September to December, when the Panthers play football, dreams can come true....

    Regular price: $21.49

    • 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 212 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....

    Regular price: $17.19

    • A Hidden Dimension of American Racism
    • By: James Loewen
    • Narrated by: Norman Dietz
    • Length: 26 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 03-27-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 247 ratings
    • Sundown Towns examines thousands of all-white American towns that were - and still are, in some instances - racially exclusive by design....

    Regular price: $30.09

    • Bob Dylan, The Band, Van Morrison, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and Friends in the Wild Years of Woodstock
    • By: Barney Hoskyns
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 13 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 03-29-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 60 ratings
    • When musicians in the New York folk scene of the 1960s grew tired of city life, they decided to "get it together in the country"....

    Regular price: $17.62

    • Arliss Cutter, Book 3
    • By: Marc Cameron
    • Narrated by: David Chandler
    • Series: Arliss Cutter, Book 3
    • Length: 11 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 04-27-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 958 ratings
    • In the icy heart of Alaska, a series of gruesome murders leads Deputy US Marshal Arliss Cutter into a firestorm of searing corruption, clashing cultures, and bone-chilling fear....

    Regular price: $21.49

    • By: John Le Carré
    • Narrated by: Ralph Lister
    • Length: 13 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 08-20-24
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • In the late 1960s, in the town of Bonn, capital of West Germany, a British Embassy officer by the name of Leo Harting goes missing—and forty-three confidential-or-higher files with him.

    Regular price: $27.29

    • 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 916 ratings
    • The New York Times' Mark Leibovich, presents a blistering, penetrating, jaw-dropping - and often hysterical - look at Washington’s incestuous "media industrial complex"....

    Regular price: $15.75

    • A Primer on Local Government Politics
    • By: Carl Stephani, Marilyn Stephani
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 5 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 02-29-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • This is the story of a local government manager who got hired by a small mountain town in the Colorado Rocky Mountains in his first city manager ...

    Regular price: $7.00

    • By: David M. Buerge
    • Narrated by: Arthur Morey
    • Length: 11 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 05-15-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 147 ratings
    • This is the first thorough historical account of Chief Seattle and his times - the story of a half century of tremendous flux, turmoil, and violence, during which a native American war leader became an advocate for peace and strove to create a successful hybrid racial community....

    Regular price: $17.16

    • JonBenet and the City of Boulder
    • By: Lawrence Schiller
    • Narrated by: Ron McLarty
    • Length: 6 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 12-16-99
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 133 ratings
    • Nothing written about the death of JonBenet Ramsey can possibly prepare the listener for the revelations in this audio....

    Regular price: $15.29

    • How Athens, Georgia, Launched Alternative Music and Changed American Culture
    • By: Grace Elizabeth Hale
    • Narrated by: Emily Cauldwell
    • Length: 13 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 03-23-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 69 ratings
    • In 1979, the self-titled debut album by the B-52s burst onto the Billboard charts, capturing the imagination of fans and music critics worldwide. The fact that the group had formed in the sleepy southern college town of Athens, Georgia, only increased the fascination....

    Regular price: $24.95

    • A 100,000-Mile Journey into the Heart of America
    • By: James Fallows, Deborah Fallows
    • Narrated by: James Fallows, Deborah Fallows
    • Length: 15 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 05-08-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 206 ratings
    • A vivid, surprising portrait of the civic and economic reinvention taking place in America, town by town and generally out of view of the national media. A realistically positive and provocative view of the country between its coasts....

    Regular price: $22.50

    • Murder and Injustice in a Small Town
    • By: John Grisham
    • Narrated by: Craig Wasson
    • Length: 12 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 10-06-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4,021 ratings
    • John Grisham’s first work of nonfiction: a true crime story that will terrify anyone who believes in the presumption of innocence....

    Regular price: $20.25

    • 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 148 ratings
    • The Hospital is an intimate, heart-wrenching portrait of one small hospital that reveals the magnitude of America’s health care crises....

    Regular price: $24.74

    • 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 15 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....

    Regular price: $17.19

    • 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 223 ratings
    • A gripping portrait of modern Tibet told through the lives of its people, from the best-selling author of Nothing to Envy....

    Regular price: $18.00